Carebara sicheli Mayr

Type location Senegal (Carebara Sicheli n. sp., Mayr, 1862: 754, queen) collector Dr Sichel; queen only described; (see Bolton, 1995) .

Mayr's (1862) description of the queen is at . Mayr (1904a: 596) compared various Carebara - sicheli, C. lignata from Java and C. vidua; this is at .

Wheeler (1922) also recorded it from Benin (Upper Dahomey) and Sudan - in Mayr (1862) as "White Nile". TL maximum 15 mm, body covered with short hairs, clypeus coarsely punctate, dark brown (Wheeler, 1922)

The photomontage of the type queen is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0919628