The Ants of Africa
Genus Polyrhachis
Polyrhachis gibbula Rigato

Polyrhachis gibbula Rigato

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Kenya (Rigato, 2016: 29, photograph); Holotype. KENYA: 20 km WSW Malindi, 20 m, 3°18’ S, 39°58’ E, 16.xii.1990 (P.S. Ward) # 11167,
semideciduous forest, ex dead twig (BMNH). Paratypes. 1 worker with the same data as the holotype (BMNH). Non-type specimens. TANZANIA: Lindi Region, Mbarawala Plateaux, 270 m, 9.03957 S 39.12010 E, 29.ii–4.iii.2008, CEPF-TZ-12.1-F50 primary forest, pitfall trap (P. Hawkes, Y Mlacha, F. Ninga) (1 w, AFRC: AntWeb CASENT0235680).

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

{Polyrhachis gibbula}The photomontage is of the holotype worker, collated from Rigato (2016), Fig. 7).
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