The Ants of Africa
Genus Plagiolepis
Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis) vanderkelleni Forel

Subgenus Anacantholepis Santschi

Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis) vanderkelleni Forel

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Angola (Plagiolepis Van der Kelleni n. sp., Forel, 1901d: 310, worker) Cubango-Cuito, P van der kellen - see below
subspecies tricolor from Botswana (Plagiolepis van den kelleni Forel var. tricolor n. var., Forel, 1910f: 24, worker) Kalahari, L Schultze - see below
worker only known (see Bolton, 1995) .


The description of Plagiolepis polita is so very different that I have separated it off as a full species.

Forel's (1901d) description is at - {original description} Forel's (1910f) description of tricolor is at - {original description} Arnold's (1922: 584) translation of Forel's (1910d) description, plus tricolor - {original description}.


{Plagiolepis vanderkelleni}The photomontage of the fragmented type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0909863


{Plagiolepis vanderkelleni tricolor}The photomontage of the type worker of tricolor is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0909864

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