The Ants of Africa
Genus Rhoptromyrmex
Rhoptromyrmex critchleyi Bolton
{Rhoptromyrmex critchleyi}

Rhoptromyrmex critchleyi Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Nigeria (Bolton, 1976: 303, illustrated, full-face head, lateral alitrunk and pedicel); the holotype worker was found at IITA, , with a second collection (B.R. Critchley, 23-27.xi.1973, and 11-16.x.1973), known only from the type series of three workers .

Bolton's description (1976) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 2.4-2.7 mm; separated as the only genus member with eleven-segmented antennae; propodeum with a pair of spines; head, alitrunk and pedicel densely reticulate-punctate; all dorsal surfaces with short standing hairs.
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