Paratrechina albipes (Emery)

Type location Cameroun (Prenolepis albipes, Emery, 1899e: 497, worker) collected by L Conradt; worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1899e) description is at .

Nigeria specimens (as Paratrechina species 2, Taylor, 1978: 29). WORKER. TL 1.56 mm, HL 0.47, HW 0.39, SL 0.54, PW 0.28
Overall colour yellow-brown, darker on the gaster. Dense pubescence with a blue-green iridescence when obliquely illuminated. Eyes slightly breaking outline of head in full face view. Four pairs of erect hairs in line on the dorsum of alitrunk but no others, relatively few hairs on head and gaster. Promesonotal suture distinct but metanotal suture faint.
Nests were seen in debris in crevices on mature cocoa, in dead bark of cocoa tree, and in an old Tetramorium aculeatum nest, all at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre. Occasionally found foraging on cocoa, where it will construct tents over aphids.

Also found in Ghana, on leaf litter and herbs under cocoa at the Mampong Cemetery farm, and nesting in same sites, plus sampled seven times from cocoa canopy in the wider survey (Room, 1971).

Collected in moderate numbers, 100-200 individuals, in pitfall traps and ground searches at Nko'emvon, Cameroun, by Jackson (1984).

The photomontage is of a specimen from Congo, pitfall trapped by Yves Braet & Eric Nzassi, 2007. Other images can be seen in the folder at - .