Polyrhachis braxa Bolton

Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1973b: 333, illustrated, worker), holotype and two paratype workers from CRIG, collected on a cocoa tree, by C.A. Collingwood, 4.iii.1970 - see below .

Bolton's description (1973b) is at

WORKER - TL 5.7-5.9 mm; characterised particularly by the reduced armament, except on the petiole with a pair of widely separated straight spines dorsally and a pair of lateral teeth. Numerous erect pale off-white hairs, and sparser greyish pubescence, densest on the sides of alitrunk and petiole. Whole body shining, colour black, legs dark brown and apical segment of the antennal funiculus yellow-brown (Bolton, 1973b, illustrated, full body dorsal view, alitrunk and pedicel profile, anterior petiole).

The photomontage of the holotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0903465.