Polyrhachis lauta Santschi

Type location Congo (Santschi, 1910c: 397, illustrated, queen; Bolton, 1973b: 311, worker), collected at Brazzaville by A.Weiss; junior synonyms laeta (Emery, 1921e: 22, queen) from Cameroun, no location, collector L. Conradt; and localis (Forel, 1913h: 359, queen) from Zaïre; worker and queen only known (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1910c) description is at . Forel's (1913h) description of localis is at . Emery's (1921e) description of laeta is at . Bolton's modern description (1973b) is at

WORKER - TL 5.5-6.2 mm; similar to fissa but with a short, longitudinal shallow groove terminating in a depression close to the outer margin of the antennal socket. Standing hairs sparse. Head and gaster very finely superficially reticulate; dorsal surfaces of alitrunk extremely finely, densely longitudinally striate. Colour black, apical segments of antenna yellow-brown (Bolton, 1973b, illustrated, head and petiole only).

Other findings listed by Bolton (1973b) include - Ghana, at Tumu (P.M. Room, one of the unnamed species from cocoa canopy in Room, 1971); and Uganda.