The Ants of Africa
Genus Plagiolepis
Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) brunni Mayr

Plagiolepis Mayr sensu stricto

Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) brunni Mayr

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Mozambique (Plagiolepis Brunni nov. spec., Mayr, 1895: 148, worker) Delagoa Bay, Dr Brauns - see below
subspecies nilotica (Plagiolepis brunni Mayr var. nilotica nov. var., Mayr, 1904b: 7, worker) from South Sudan, Kaka - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0915712
pubescens (Plagiolepis Brunni Mayr v. pubescens n. v., Forel, 1913a: 140, worker) from Zimbabwe, Plumtree, G Arnold - see below
(see Bolton, 1995) .


Mayr's (1895) description is at - {original description}. A translation by Arnold (1922a: 603) is at - {original description}. Mayr's 1904b description of nilotica is at {original description}. Subspecies pubescens notably pubescent, while type lacking in pubescence.


Plagiolepis brunniNigeria specimen (Taylor, 1978: 41). WORKER. TL 1.32 mm, HL 0.36, HW 0.31, SL 0.30, PW 0.19
Colour yellow, shiny and no sculpturation. Few erect hairs and only sparse pilosity. Promesonotal and metanotal sutures marked. Propodeum with an obtusely curved angle.

An abundant species, commonly found on over 7% of cocoa trees and at 65/76 farms, but seems to play no significant role in the ant mosaic. Will tend aphids and occasionally builds tents. Also found foraging on native trees, kola, oil palm and plantain (Taylor, 1977; Taylor & Adedoyin, 1978).

Listed from Guinea, at Mamou by F. Silvestri, by Wheeler (1922), also widely across sub-Saharan Africa.

Nests in dead twigs and under the bark on living trees.

Also found in Ghana, on cocoa mistletoe at the Mampong Cemetery farm (Room, 1971, 1975); and on cocoa at Kade (Majer, 1975) but not listed by Majer (1976b).


{Plagiolepis brunni}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0915711


{Plagiolepis brunni pubescens}The photomontage of the type worker of pubescens is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0909847


Oxford University Museum specimens

Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) brunni
B Taylor det.
Benin
S Tchibozo
Benin 1
27.viii.2006
Bonou
06°50-55' N
02°20-30'E
Forêt de Gnanhouizoumè,  Pitfall trap
held by Tapinoma modestum

1
{album}
Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) brunni
B Taylor det.
Cameroon
Francis Feugang
3D7
26.viii.2009
Yaoundé
03°52' N
11°31" E
sur le cadavre de rat, capture par le fillet
1
{album}
Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) brunni
B Taylor det.

Sudan
J Mathews
JM 115

22.xi.2000
Abu Gmein, Blue Nile
11°21' N
34°27' E
pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal
3
{album}
Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) brunni
B Taylor det.
Sudan
J Mathews
JM 183
26.vi.2001
Abu Gmein, Blue Nile
11°21' N
34°27' E
pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal 1
{album}
Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) brunni
B Taylor det.
Sudan
J Mathews
JM 385
19.x.2001
Abu Gmein, Blue Nile
11°21' N
34°27' E
pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal 1
{album}
Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) brunni
B Taylor det.
Sudan
J Mathews
JM 398
20.x.2001
Abu Gmein, Blue Nile
11°21' N
34°27' E
pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal 1
{album}

Plagiolepis brunniThe photomontage is of specimens from Sudan, collected by J Mathews, by pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal; Abu Gmein, Blue Nile, 11°21' N 34°27' E; 22.xi.2000, JM 115; 3 workers

Khordonia, Damazine Plantation, Blue Nile - 11°51' N 34°15' E, 4 trees (7) [JM "Pristomyrmex"]
Abu Gmein, as above, 6 trees (12)


Plagiolepis brunniThe photomontage is of workers from Sudan, collected by J Mathews, by pyrethrum fogging of Acacia senegal; Abu Gmein, Blue Nile, 11°21' N 34°27' E; 19.x.2001, JM 385; one worker.


{Plagiolepis brunni}

The photomontage is of a specimen from Benin, Bonou, Forêt de Gnanhouizoumè, 06°50-55 N 02°20-30'E; Pitfall trap; S Tchibozo; 27.viii.2006. The specimen was held in the jaws of a worker of Tapinoma modestum.

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