The Ants of Africa
Genus Oligomyrmex
Oligomyrmex (Oligomyrmex) latro Santschi
{Oligomyrmex latro}

Oligomyrmex (Oligomyrmex) latro Santschi

Major - return to key Minor - return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Santschi, 1937g: 81, illustrated, major & minor); major & minor described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1937g) description is at {original description}. Weber's (1950a) translation is at {original description}.


Oligomyrmex (Oligomyrmex) species D

Minor only in CRIN collection, not drawn, TL 1.03 mm (Taylor, 1980a: 37).

Colour dark yellow-brown. Unsculptured except for the lower mesonotum which is punctate. Eye small but not minute. Antennae 9-segmented. Metanotal groove shallowly impressed. Propodeal spine more acute than species B. Small subpetiolar tooth.

Collected in Nigeria from an earth termitarium at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre by B. Bolton.

Possibly O. latro?

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