The Ants of Africa
Genus Strumigenys
Strumigenys bernardi Brown

Strumigenys bernardi Brown

return to key return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre ("Strumigenys new species Bernard ms", Brown,1954k: 16; Brown, 1960c: 206, worker; see Bolton, 1995); worker only described .

Brown's (1954k) description is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1983) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 1.7-2.1 mm; long bowed mandibles, usually with a single preapical tooth on the left mandibular blade (rarely with a minute denticle in addition to the single tooth); reticulate-punctate propodeal dorsum; colour dull yellow (Bolton, 1983: 356, not illustrated).

Listed by Brown (1954k) as known from Congo and Angola. Bolton (1983) added records from Cameroun, at Nko'emvon (D.A. Jackson) and near Yaoundé (G. Terron); plus Gabon.

Note - although Bolton (1983) gave the colour as dull yellow, Brown (1954k) did not mention the colour

{Strumigenys bernardi}The photomontage is of a specimen from Gabon, Pongara National Park; Gabon 202; 17-22.v.2006; Winkler Funnel of leaf litter; collected by Yves Braet. . Other images can be seen in the folders at - {original description}, {original description}, {original description}, {original description}, {original description} and {original description}

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