The Ants of Africa
Genus Polyrhachis
Polyrhachis brevipilosa Rigato

Polyrhachis brevipilosa Rigato

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Gabon (Rigato, 2016: 16, photograph); Holotype worker. GABON: La Makandé, Forêt des Abeilles, I–II.1999, A. Dejean (BMNH).
Paratypes. REPUBLIC of the CONGO: Niari Region, 2.30921 S 12.82224 E, 754 m, 4.vii.2013, primary forest, canopy fogging (L. Niemand) (1 w, AFRC: LN-RC1-044, CASENT0250041); Niari Region, 2.31500 S 12.82488 E, 710 m, 5.vii.2013, primary forest, canopy fogging (L. Niemand) (1 w, AFRC: LN-RC1-041, CASENT0250033). - see below - no images on Antweb (June 2018).

Rigato's description (2016) is at {original description}

{Polyrhachis brevipilosa}The photomontage is of the holotype worker, collated from Fig. 1 of Rigato (2016).
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