The Ants of Africa
Genus Oligomyrmex
Oligomyrmex (Aneleus) weyeri (Karavaiev)

Oligomyrmex (Aneleus) weyeri (Karavaiev)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Indonesia (Solenopsis (Solenops) weyeri sp. n., Karavaiev 1930a: 207, illustrated, worker & queen; in Oligomyrmex, Ettershank, 1966: 124) Ambon
worker and queen described.


Oligomyrmex weyeriKaravaiev's (1930a) description is at {original description}.

The overall morphology and lack of a major, from the original collection of workers and queens in a nest, matches that of Solenopsis. Karavaiev described it by comparison with Solenopsis fugax

See the S. fugax worker and queen shown on http://www.antweb.org/description.do?rank=species&genus=solenopsis&name=fugax&project=sloveniaants

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