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Bothroponera kenyensis Santschi

Bothroponera kenyensis Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Kenya (Bothroponera kenyensis, Santschi, 1937a: 47, illustrated, worker; in Pachycondyla, Bolton, 1995: 306; status revived Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77) - no type images on Antweb (June 2014).
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .


{Pachycondyla kenyensis}Santschi's (1937a) description is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 5.6 mm; close to Bothroponera silvestrii but mandibles with irregular dentition and generally more finely sculptured and with finer, shorter pubescence.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Bothroponera kenyensis
B Taylor det.
Tanzania
V Grebennikov


09-11.x.2002
Usambara Mts
5°05' S
38°38' E
Amani NR, Zigi Lodge, 2200 m
2
{album}

{Pachycondyla kenyensis}The photomontage is of a worker from the Usambara Mts, Tanzania, Amani NR, Zigi Lodge; collector V. Grebennikov2. 

A specimen from Tanzania, Mkomazi Game Reserve, can be seen at http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=sam-hym-c008626a.

Also http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0235599

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