Polyrhachis spinicola Forel

Type location Mozambique (Forel, 1894b: 70, worker & queen), collected at Delagoa, by Junod; junior synonym gallicola (as cubaensis race gallicola, Forel, 1894b: 71, worker and queen) from Mozambique, in a stalk gall by Dr Liengme; worker and queen only known (Bolton, 1973b: 329, not illustrated; also Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1894b) description is at , with his description of gallicola at . Arnold (1924: 751) gave an illustrated translation; this is at . Bolton's modern description (1973b) is at .

WORKER - TL 6.1-7.0 mm, HL 1.62-1.78, HW 1.33-1.48, SL 1.70-1.78, PW 1.11-1.24
Distinguished from cubaensis as transverse ridge between propodeal spines has no medial tooth or tubercle; propodeal spines outcurved and directed posterolaterally. Colour black, appendages red-brown or yellow-brown.

Collected from Acacia thorns at Delagoa by Herr Junod; also from Muculla, East Africa, by Dr Junod.