Paratrechina zelotypa (Santschi)
Type location Kenya (Prenolepis jaegerskioldi var
zelotypa, Santschi, 1915c: 264, worker, raised to species
Santschi, 1919b: 238); worker only
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Santschi's (1915c, 1919b) descriptions are at
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He noted very similar to weissi but the latter is much
less shiny and more yellow, with the sides of the head more convex
(near straight in zelotypa). Also known from Zimbabwe.
Nigeria specimens (as Paratrechina species 1, Taylor, 1978: 27). WORKER
TL 1.99 mm, HL 0.57, HW 0.49, SL 0.65, PW 0.34 Overall colour brown, shiny but with dense pubescence on gaster
and head. Head with abundant short erect hairs. Alitrunk with four
pairs of erect hairs in line on dorsum, two pairs of smaller erect
hairs on pronotum outside of the main line. Promesonotal and
metanotal sutures distinct.
Nests in leaf litter and in dead wood on the
soil, also under bark on a living tree. Found foraging on cocoa,
where it was quite common, on 0.1-1.0% of cocoa trees, tending
aphids and perhaps building debris tents (Taylor, 1977). Also
found foraging on the soil, oil palm and coffee.
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