The Ants of Africa
Ants collected in Cameroun by Debout & Dalecky, 2001
Cameroun - modern surveys & collections

Ant species identified by B Taylor - tabulated in taxonomic order

* first record for Cameroun; total 75 species , total 32 new records for Cameroun; possibly two or three new species; three species recognised as new or revived status
Subfamily Species Code No Details
Dolichoderinae Axinidris bidens Cameroon 33 from location BP, 05.iv.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants
Dolichoderinae Axinidris bidens Cameroon 36 from location BOU, 05.iv.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants
Dolichoderinae Axinidris bidens Cameroon 111 from location BP, 25.iii.2001 in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants
Dolichoderinae Axinidris bidens Cameroon 114 from location LA, 25.iii.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants
Dolichoderinae Tapinoma arnoldi Cameroon 13 & 14 from location EBO, 24.iii.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants *
Dolichoderinae Tapinoma lugubre Cameroon 39 from Nkolobondé, 05 .iv.2001, on soil and surface in the village *
Dolichoderinae Tapinoma debouti n. sp. Cameroon 60 from location LOL, 10.iv.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants *
Dolichoderinae Tapinoma debouti n. sp. Cameroon 28 from location GRO, 25.iii.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants
Dolichoderinae Tapinoma debouti n. sp. Cameroon 10 from location KIEN, 05.iv.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants
Dolichoderinae Technomyrmex kohli Cameroon 21 from location GRO, 25.iii.2001; in leaf-pouch domatia of Delpydora sp *
Dolichoderinae Technomyrmex laurenti Cameroon 18 from location GRO, 25.iii.2001; in leaf-pouch domatia of Delpydora conocarpa
Dolichoderinae Technomyrmex parviflavus Cameroon 2 from Ebodjé, 24.iii.2001, on sandy soil and surface near the beach
Dorylinae Dorylus (Anomma) burmeisteri Cameroon 11 from location EBO-TE, 24.iii.2001 - on soil and surface in forest understorey
Dorylinae Dorylus (Anomma) daleckyi n. sp. Cameroon 37 from Kribi, 05.iv.2001 - in herbaceous vegetation about 20 cm tall (garden of the Catholic Mission)
Dorylinae Dorylus (Anomma) kohli Cameroon 104 from N'kolobondé, 24.iv.2001 - on trail, near secondary growth fields *
Formicinae Camponotus (Myrmopelta) barbarossa Cameroon 34 from Nko'élon, 5.iv.2001; on the standing trunk of a dead tree
Formicinae Camponotus (Myrmopelta) chrysurus Cameroon 106 from location JFK, 24.iv.2001, on lianas and dead tree trunk in a treefall gap
Formicinae Camponotus (Myrmopelta) vividus Cameroon 27 from location 9 km south of Ebodjé, 27.iii.2001, on the fallen rotten trunk of a tree
Formicinae Camponotus (Myrmopelta) vividus Cameroon 45 from location JFK, 05.iv.2001, on soil and surface in a forest understorey
Formicinae Camponotus (Myrmotrema) crucheti Cameroon 129 from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001 (revised 2014)
Formicinae Camponotus (Orthonotomyrmex) sericeus Cameroon 124 from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001 *
Formicinae Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) agonius Cameroon 131b from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001; minor worker *
Formicinae
 Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) acvapimensis
 Cameroon 129 from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001 (revised 2014)
Formicinae Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) maculatus Cameroon 99 from Kribi, 15 .iv.2001, in herbaceous vegetation about 20 cm tall, in garden of the Catholic Mission
Formicinae Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) pompeius Cameroon 130 from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001
Formicinae Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) roubaudi Cameroon 131a from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001 *
Formicinae Oecophylla fusca Cameroon 64 from location TM, 10.iv.2001, on flowers of Leonardoxa africana africana
Formicinae Oecophylla longinoda Cameroon 01 from Ebodjé, 24.iii.2001, on plants near the beach
Formicinae Oecophylla longinoda Cameroon 79 BOU, 18.iv.2001, on plants
Formicinae Oecophylla longinoda claridens Cameroon 56 from location EBO, 10.iv.2001, on a lianescent plant *
Formicinae Oecophylla rubriceps Cameroon 120 Kouedjina, extreme south-east, 15.ii.2001, on cocoa tree *
Formicinae Paratrechina longicornis Cameroon 92 from Kribi, 15.iv.2001, in herbaceous vegetation about 20 cm tall (garden of the Catholic Mission), moving feverishly *
Formicinae Polyrhachis militaris Cameroon 106 from location JFK, 24.iv.2001, on lianas and dead trunks in a treefall gap
Myrmicinae Atopomyrmex cryptoceroides Cameroon 47 location BOU, 5.iv.2001, on a standing tree trunk *
Myrmicinae Cataulacus centrurus Cameroon 81 from location BOU, 18.iv.2001, on Alchornea species in the edge vegetation
Myrmicinae Cataulacus erinaceus Cameroon 103 from location BOU, 24.iv.2001, on an understorey tree
Myrmicinae Cataulacus guineensis type form Cameroon 8 from location TM, 24.iii.2001, on soil and surface in forest understorey
Myrmicinae Cataulacus guineensis type form Cameroon 72 from location BOU, 18.iv.2001; on many different plants
Myrmicinae Cataulacus guineensis variant Cameroon 83 from location BOU, 18.iv.2001, on Alchornea species in the edge vegetation
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Atopogyne) africana Cameroon 97 from Kribi, 15 .iv.2001, on the trunk of Mangifera indica
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Atopogyne) africana Cameroon 101 from location BOU, 24.iv.2001, on an extra-floral nectary bearing understorey tree
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Atopogyne) buchneri Cameroon 116 from Kouedjina, 17.ii.2001; no details
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Atopogyne) depressa Cameroon 06 from location TM, 24.iii.2001 (2 small specimens) at nectaries of Alchorea floribunda
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Atopogyne) transiens Cameroon 70 from location BOU, 18 .iv.2001, at nectaries of Alchorea floribunda, apparently with numerous Crematogaster striatula *
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Crem.) gerstaeckeri Cameroon 123 from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001 *
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Crem.) impressiceps Cameroon 59 from location EBO, 10.iv.2001, nest in a tree
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Crem.) stigmata Cameroon 03 from Ebodjé, 24.iii.2001, on Barteria nigritiana *
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Decacrema) petiolidens Cameroon 62 from location TM, 10.iv.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants *
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Orthocrema) pulchella Cameroon 118 Kouedjina, extreme south-east, 15.ii.2001 *
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Oxygyne) margaritae Cameroon 66 from location BOU, 18.iv.2001; on a domatia-bearing and lianescent Rubiaceae *
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema) gabonensis Cameroon 50 from Ebodjé, 05.iv.2001; on Terminalia catappa in village
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema) luctans Cameroon 16 from location MAM, 25.iii.2001; on an extra-floral nectary bearing plant, Macaranga or Bridelia sp *
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema) striatula Cameroon 07 from location EBO, 24 .iii.2001, at nectaries of Alchorea floribunda
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema) striatula Cameroon 70 from location BOU, 18.iv.2001, at nectaries of Alchorea floribunda
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema) striatula Cameroon 87 from location BOU, 18.iv.2001, on soil and surface
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema) striatula Cameroon 119 from Kouedjina, 17.ii.2000, on cocoa tree
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema) striatula Cameroon 117 from Kouedjina, 17.ii.2000, no details
Myrmicinae Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema) striatula Cameroon 126c, & Cameroon 127 From 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001
Myrmicinae Monomorium afrum Cameroon 125 & 128b from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001 *
Myrmicinae Monomorium bicolor Cameroon 110 from Yaoundé, 24.iv.2001, in herbaceous vegetation, about 20 cm tall, in a domestic garden
Myrmicinae Monomorium bicolor Cameroon 126 from the soudano-guinean savannah 30 Km east of Poli, 15.vi.2001
Myrmicinae Monomorium dolatu Cameroon 5 from location EBO, 24.iii.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants; note the diagnosis is questionable and this may be a new species
Myrmicinae Monomorium dolatu Cameroon 19 from location MAM, 25.iii.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants
Myrmicinae Monomorium dolatu Cameroon 36 from location PIR, 05.iv.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants
Myrmicinae Monomorium dolatu Cameroon 55 from Ebodjé, 10.iv.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants
Myrmicinae Monomorium dolatu Cameroon 112 from location BOU, 25.iii.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants
Myrmicinae Monomorium draxocum Cameroon 32 from location HEVE, 05.iv.April 2001, only in a dead domatia of L. africana africana
Myrmicinae Monomorium malamixtum Cameroon 85 from location BOU, 18.iv.2001, nest on a terrestrial termite nest
Myrmicinae Monomorium pharaonis Cameroon 96 from Kribi, 10.iv.2001, from bread and black chocolate bait on soil
Myrmicinae Monomorium pharaonis Cameroon 95 at Kribi, in herbaceous vegetation about 20 cm tall (garden of the catholic mission); a single specimen among Solenopis geminata specimens
Myrmicinae Myrmicaria baumi Cameroon 41 from Nkolobondé, on soil and surface in the village *
Myrmicinae Myrmicaria baumi Cameroon 44 from location BOU, 05.iv.2001, on soil and surface in forest understorey
Myrmicinae Myrmicaria exigua Cameroon 105 from location JFK, 24.iv.2001; at extrafloral nectaries of a shrub in a treefall gap
Myrmicinae Myrmicaria congolensis Cameroon 107 from Bella, 24.iv.2001, on soil and surface in the village
Myrmicinae Myrmicaria congolensis crucheti Cameroon 43 from location BOU, 05.iv.2001, on soil and surface in a forest understorey
Myrmicinae Myrmicaria congolensis crucheti Cameroon 67 from location BOU, 18.iv.2001, in a nest constructed among dead leaves and attached to a living tree branch on the ground
Myrmicinae Myrmicaria congolensis crucheti Cameroon 104 from Nkolobondé, 24.iv.2001, a single specimen from among a number of Dorylus kohli collected on a trail near secondary growth fields
Myrmicinae Myrmicaria natalensis Cameroon 122 from Kouedjina, 20.iv.2001, noted simply as terricolous ants
Myrmicinae Pheidole impressifrons Cameroon 46 from Nkolobondé, 05.iv.2001, on soil and surface in the village *
Myrmicinae Pheidole impressifrons Cameroon 82 from location BOU, nest in a dead hollow branch (external diameter 6 cm, internal diameter 2 cm)
Myrmicinae Pheidole ingenita Cameroon 126b from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001 *
Myrmicinae Pheidole megacephala Cameroon 10 from location IPE, 24.iii.2001, in leaf-pouch domatia of Delpydora sp
Myrmicinae Pheidole megacephala Cameroon 29 from location Ebodjé, 27.iii.2001, on soil and surface in the village
Myrmicinae Pheidole megacephala Cameroon 80 from location BOU, 18.iv.2001, nest in a hollow and rotten branch (1.5 m above ground), in the edge vegetation
Myrmicinae Pheidole megacephala Cameroon 109 from Yaoundé, 28.iv.2001, in herbaceous vegetation about 20 cm tall, garden of house
Myrmicinae Pheidole megacephala Cameroon 115a 25.iii.2000, no collection details
Myrmicinae Pheidole minima Cameroon 31 from location KIEN, 05.iv.2001, in pouch-like stipules of a Rubiaceae
Myrmicinae Pheidole nigeriensis Cameroon 58 from location EBO, 10.iv.2001, on soil and surface at sardine oil bait *
Myrmicinae Pheidole nkomoana Cameroon 121 from Kouedjina, extreme south-east, 15.ii.2000; minors only *
Myrmicinae Pheidole glabrella Cameroon 09 from location TM, 24.iii.2001; on soil and surface in forest understorey; minors only * (revised 2012)
Myrmicinae Pheidole pusilla - revived status Cameroon 73 from location BOU, 18 .iv.2001, nest on a big tree under bark comprised of large scaly plates; minors only *
Myrmicinae Pheidole sculpturata Cameroon 128 from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001 *
Myrmicinae Pheidole speculifera Cameroon 71 from location BOU, 18 .iv.2001, nest in the ground; minors only
Myrmicinae Pyramica (Serrastruma) mckeyi n. sp. Cameroon 113 from location KIEN, 25.iii.2001; found on L. africana africana *
Myrmicinae Solenopsis geminata type form Cameroon 04 24.iii.2001, from location Ebodjé, on soil and surface in the village *
Myrmicinae Solenopsis geminata type form Cameroon 94 and Cameroon 98, from Kribi, 15.iv.2001, both on soil and surface at sardine oil bait;
Myrmicinae Solenopsis geminata type form Cameroon 95 from location Kribi, 15.iv.2001, in herbaceous vegetation in the garden of the Catholic Mission
Myrmicinae Solenopsis geminata innota Cameroon 49 9.iv.2001, from location Ebodjé, on soil and surface in the village *
Myrmicinae Tetramorium peutli Cameroon 61 from location IPE, 10.iv.2001; in domatia of Leonardoxa africana africana plants *
Myrmicinae Tetramorium sericeiventre Cameroon 126 from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001
Myrmicinae Tetramorium simillimum Cameroon 95 from Kribi, 15.iv.2001, in herbaceous vegetation, about 20 cm tall, in garden of Catholic Mission *
Ponerinae Odontomachus troglodytes Cameroon 48 from location EBO, 09.iv.2001, in leaf litter
Ponerinae Odontomachus troglodytes Cameroon 63 from location TM, 10.iv.2001, on sandy banks of a forest river
Ponerinae Pachycondyla (Bothroponera) soror Cameroon 57 from location EBO, 10.iv.2001, on the soil surface at sardine oil bait
Ponerinae Pachycondyla (Brachyponera) decolor - new status Cameroon 88 from N'kolobondé, 18.iv.2001 *
Ponerinae Pachycondyla (Brachyponera) decolor Cameroon 108 from Bella, 24.iii.2001; in both cases on the soil surface in the village
Ponerinae Pachycondyla (Brachyponera) ruginota - new status Cameroon 40 from N'kolobondé, 05.iv.2001, on the soil surface in the village
Ponerinae Pachycondyla (Megaponera) analis Cameroon 131 from 30 km east of Poli at a Sudan-Guinea savannah location, 15.vi.2001
Ponerinae Pachycondyla (Paltothyreus) tarsata Cameroon 15 from location BP, 24 .iii.2001, on the soil surface at sardine oil bait
Pseudomyrmecinae Tetraponera aethiops Cameroon 89 from Bella, 18.iv.2001 in domatia of Barteria fistulosa
Pseudomyrmecinae Tetraponera ophthalmica Cameroon 17 from location MAM, 25.iii.2001; found on L. africana africana
Pseudomyrmecinae Tetraponera unidens - new status Cameroon 20 from location MAM, 25.iii.2001; found on L. africana africana

Ants collected in Cameroun by Gabriel Debout & Ambroise Dalecky, 2001

{Debout map of collecting areas}Geographical locations of the survey sites

EBO = Ebodjé, or Ebodie, 2°33.97' N 9°50.62' E, 70 m from village; flat terrain
TE = Transect Ebodjé - adjacent to EBO at 2°33.98' N 9°50.67' E; altitude 20 m, coastal; swampy land
TM = Transect Marigot - adjacent to EBO at 2°34.04' N 9°50.64' E; 150 m from EBO
MAM = Mamelles - mountainous massif at 2°34.07' N 9°53.80' E; En route from EBO to Mamelles
GRO = Grotte - at 2°34.05' N 9°54.01' E; En route from MAM to "Jardin de Doyle"
IPE = Ipenenjé - village at 2°36.21' N 9°50.52' E; 5.3 km from EBO to Kribi
LOL = Lolabé - river at 2°39.40' N 9°51.81' E; road descending to river
HEVE = Hevecam; - 2°48.16' N 10°02.17' E; rough track area
KIEN = Kienké - swamp/river alongside plantations at 2°52.02' N 9°59.13' E; marshy land
BP = Bipaga - village at 3°07.35' N 10°00.67' E; flat land north of the forest road
PIR = Pirate (used for illegal logging area) near BP
BOU = Bondé - river near N'kolobondé at 3°13.31' N 10°15.01' E; flat land, between the Chapel and the river (name corrected by G Debout, email)
JFK = Joung Forest nr Nkolo - at 3°13.53' N 10°15.07' E; flat land, liable to flooding
LA = Bela - village at 3°14.45' N 10°13.33' E; flat land, alongside river

Douala-Edea Reserve, 3°35' N 9°54' E, altitude 10 m.
N'kolobondé, 3°14' N 10°15' E, altitude 70 m.
Kouedjina, 3°55' N, 13°45' E, altitude 692 m.
Yaoundé, 3°52' N 11°32' E, altitude 726 m.
Kribi, 2°56' N 9°55' E, altitude 13 m, coastal.
Nko'élon, 3°31' N 11°19' E, altitude 452 m.
Poli, 8°29' N 13°15' E, altitude 780 m; suodano-guinean savannah - 30 km E is ca 8°29' N 13°29' E.

Data from the PhD thesis of Gabriel Debout (2003) Parasite et mutualisme de protection. Le cas de Cataulacus mckeyi, fourmi symbiotique de Leonardoxa africana africana. (http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/ecoevol/docs/Debout_PhdThesis2003.pdf), McKey (2000) and http://www.fallingrain.com/. See also Doyle McKey's letter.

References (in chronological order)

McKey group

McKey, D. (1984)
Interaction of the Ant-Plant Leonardoxa africana (Caesalpinaceae) with its obligate inhabitants in a rainforest in Cameroon. Biotropica, 16, 81-99.
McKey, D. (2000)
Leonardoxa africana (Caesalpinaceae) a complex of mostly allopatric species. Adansonia, 22, 71-109.
Gaume, L., Matile-Ferrero & McKey, D. (2000)
Colony foundation and acquisition of coccoid trophobionts by Aphomomyrmex afer (Formicinae): co-dispersal of queens and phoretic mealybugs in an ant-plant-homopteran mutualism? Insectes Sociaux, 47, 84-91.
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