The Ants of Africa
Genus Polyrhachis
Polyrhachis alluaudi Emery

Polyrhachis alluaudi Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ivory Coast (Polyrhachis Alluaudi n. sp., Emery, 1892d: 567, illustrated, worker; Bolton, 1973b: 297, queen), holotype, and 2 paratype workers, from Assinie, collected by Ch. Alluaud, 1886 - see below
junior synonym anteplana (Polyrhachis (Myrma) Alluaudi Em. v. anteplana n. var., Forel, 1916: 448, worker) from Zaïre, Kohl - see below.
Worker and queen described (Bolton, 1973b) .

{Polyrhachis alluaudi}Emery's (1892d) description is at {original description}. Forel's (1916) description of anteplana is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1973b) is at {original description}

{Polyrhachis alluaudi}Worker TL 6.7-7.1 mm;erect hairs only on clypeal margin and gastral apex. Sculpture everywhere a fine dense reticulate-puncturation, sides of the head with numerous coarser punctures (Bolton, 1973b: 297, illustrated, full-face view, alitrunk profile, anterior petiole).

Polyrhachis alluaudiThe photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0905663. As stated by Bolton (1973) only partial remains.

Polyrhachis alluaudiThe photomontage of the type worker of anteplana is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0910942.
{Polyrhachis alluaudi nest}The nest of the holotype was of rather coarse vegetable fibres attached to the underside of a leaf about 1.7m above ground. Wheeler (1922) cited Emery's description and reproduced the drawings, noting that the nest was a single low-vaulted chamber, with the entrance prolonged as a kind of chimney, a drawing was shown, also a semi-lateral drawing of the head and thorax.
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