Polyrhachis otleti Forel

Type location Zaïre (Forel, 1916: 449, all forms), collected at St. Gabriel, by H. Kohl .

Forel's (1916) description is at . Bolton's modern description (1973b: 336, illustrated, alitrunk and petiole only) is at .

Nigeria specimen (Taylor, 1978: 21). WORKER. TL 6.8-7.6 mm, HL 1.63-1.71, HW 1.33-1.37, SL 1.88-2.00, PW 1.13-1.23
Entire body with numerous long white hairs and fairly abundant long pubescence. Dorsum of alitrunk transversely convex, obvious margination restricted to the propodeum; the promesonotal suture is weakly incised and the metanotal groove indistinct. Petiole with moderately long dorsal and short lateral spines. Anterior surface of first gastral segment concave.

Other findings listed by Bolton (1973b) are from Ghana, at CRIG (D.J. Cross; C.A. Collingwood). In Nigeria, collected at CRIN (B. Bolton) from a nest in a deep, narrow rot hole in a shade tree in cocoa. The hole entrance was covered with a fibrous mat of silk and small pieces of bark.