Anochetus siphneus Brown

Type location Ivory Coast (Brown, 1978c: 608, illustrated, worker), from Bandama River gallery forest, Lamto, (W.H. Gotwald & R. Schaefer) worker only described. Paratypes from Banco Forest, three workers (W.L. Brown). .

Brown's (1978c) description is at . Described as restricted to the West African forest belt.

Nigeria specimens (as Anochetus jonesi, Taylor, 1976: 13). WORKER. TL 3.93 mm, HL 0.93, HW 0.93, SL 0.78, PW 0.47
Overall colour yellow-brown, shiny. Head sparsely punctate with sparse pubescence. Pronotum sparsely punctate. Propodeum lightly rugose with a pair of prominent lateral teeth. Petiolar node a scale with a distinctly concave apex, except for the Nigerian specimens which have a flat to ovoid apex. Eyes small, length 0.08 mm.
Collected at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, under fallen banana stem (B. Bolton). The drawn specimen was collected from cocoa leaf litter at CRIN (B. Bolton).

From Ghana, at CRIG, on mud under dead leaf (B. Bolton).

The photomontage is of the holotype. The original photographs, together with enlarged images, are from the MCZ, Harvard University, website at http://mcz-28168.oeb.harvard.edu/MCZ/FMPro?-DB=Image.fm&-Lay=web&-Format=images.htm&Species_ID=34805&-Find.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Anochetus siphneus B Taylor det.

Gabon Y Braet Gabon 150

17-22.v.2006 Pongara 00°34' N 09°19' E

Leaf litter, winkler funnel

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The photomontage is of a specimen Gabon; Pongara National Park; collector Yves Braet (Gabon 150).