Anochetus fuliginosus Arnold

Type location South Africa (Anochetus fuliginosus n. sp., Arnold, 1948; 214, illustrated, worker); worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Arnold's (1948) description is at . Brown's (1978) description is with pellucidus at . Described as ranging widely in West Africa, from Liberia east to Zaïre by Brown (1978c: 605), who has good illustrations (Fig. 3, full face, and Fig. 42, lateral).

Listed by Room (1971) as found three times in his cocoa canopy collections in southern Ghana. Presumably those included the specimens reported from Aburi (2 workers, P. Room) by Brown (1978c), who also listed a specimen from Mampong (1 worker, D. Leston).

Brown (1978c) also noted a small nest series from Monrovia, Liberia (E.S. Ross and R.E. Leech).

Nigeria specimens (as Anochetus species 1, Taylor, 1976: 15). WORKER. TL 6.02 mm, HL 1.09, HW 1.09, SL 1.09 and PW 0.68
Colour very dark castaneous, lighter on the apices, antennae golden-yellow, shiny. Head coarsely striate on dorsum. Pronotum more or less longitudinally rugose. Propodeum rugoreticulate. Petiolar node a thick scale with the apex bluntly concave, and a rectangular sub-petiolar process. Eyes large, length 0.31 mm.

Collected at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, on a mature cocoa tree, from a crevice containing vegetable debris, soil and arthropod remains. Brown (1978c) reported a specimen from on a cocoa tree trunk at CRIN (B. Bolton).

The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0217504. From those listed by Brown (1978c).

Oxford University Museum specimens

Anochetus fuliginosus B Taylor det. Queen

Central African Republic P Annoyer

15-18.x.2008 Dzanga-Sangha 03°03'58.3" N 16°08'59.6" E

Camp 1; 528 m; Ayous Polytrap

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The photomontage is of a probable queen from Central African Republic, Dzanga-Sangha NP; collected by Philippe Annoyer.

The queen is previoulsy unreported.