The Ants of Africa
Genus Plagiolepis
Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) livingstonei Santschi

Plagiolepis Mayr sensu stricto

Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) livingstonei Santschi

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zambia (Santschi, 1926b: 245, all forms) Livingstone, G Arnold, 8.xii.1914
all forms known (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1926b) description is at - {original description}.

Plagiolepis livingstoneiThe photomontage of a type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0912419
Note: Santschi described the scapes as surpassing the occiput but this is not obvious from the type images (possibly due to the angle of photography).
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