The Ants of Africa
Genus Anoplolepis
Anoplolepis (Zealleyella) fallax (Mayr)

Subgenus Zealleyella

Anoplolepis (Zealleyella) fallax (Mayr)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type locality South Africa (Plagiolepis fallax nov. sp., Mayr, 1865: 54, worker; Forel, 1910f: 24, queen; in Plagiolepis (Zealleyella), Arnold, 1922: 589; in Anoplolepis Emery, 1925b: 17) Cape of Good Hope; (in subgenus Zealleyella, Bolton, 1995) .


Mayer's (1865) description is at {original description}. Arnold's (1922) translation is at {original description}. Seemingly no more than a slightly smaller and pale yellow variety of custodiens, not commented upon by Prins (1982).


Anoplolepis fallaxThe photomontage is of the type major worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0915705


Anoplolepis fallaxThe photomontage is of a syntype minor worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0903235

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