Paratrechina
zelotypa (Santschi)
 Type location Kenya
(Prenolepis jaegerskioldi var zelotypa,
Santschi, 1915c: 264, worker, raised to species Santschi, 1919b: 238);
worker only .
Santschi's (1915c, 1919b) descriptions are at .
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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The photomontage is of a specimen from Congo,
pitfall trapped, trap t 1.2, by Yves Braet & Eric Zassi,
19.viii.2007. Other images can be seen in the folder at - .
Other workers from Congo,
Réserve de Lésio-Louna, S 03°20'12.0" E
015°28'43.6"; 4-5.ii.2008; n sp 52 & 53; pitfall trap
02, t 1; Village Mah; collected by Eric Zassi. These can be seen in the
folders at - and .
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