The Ants of Africa
Genus Polyrhachis
Polyrhachis nigrita Mayr
{Polyrhachis nigrita}

Polyrhachis nigrita Mayr

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ghana (Mayr, 1895: 153, worker), junior synonym schoutedeni (Santschi, 1919c: 249, worker) from Zaïre, collected at Dolo, by F. Chaltin, xi.1912; worker only described (Bolton, 1973b) .

Mayr's (1895) description is at {original description}. Santschi's (1919c) description of schoutedeni is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1973b) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 7.0-8.9 mm; distinguished by the marked reduction of the dorsal pair of petiole spines (Bolton, 1973b: 328, illustrated, alitrunk and petiole only).

Bolton had it as probably being a ground-nesting species. Collected at Chama by H. Brauns. Other records from Zaïre (from the stomach of a toad, in Wheeler, 1922) and Uganda.
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