The Ants of Africa
Genus Polyrhachis
Polyrhachis regesa Bolton
{Polyrhachis regesa}

Polyrhachis regesa Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1973b: 337, illustrated worker), collected at Mampong, by P.M. Room, 12.iii.1970; presumably one of the cocoa canopy samples of Room, 1971); a paratype worker was collected at Adeiso by pkd (D. Leston, 17.vi.1970) .

Bolton's description (1973b) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 4.4-4.8 m; entirety of body with numerous, erect white hairs, noticeably longer on tibiae and scapes; pubescence fine, greyish, least abundant on head. Colour black, alitrunk more dull than gaster which is dully shiny, appendages brown, terminally yellow-brown (Bolton, 1973b, illustrated, full body dorsal view, alitrunk and pedicel profile, anterior petiole).
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