The Ants of Africa
Genus Strumigenys
Strumigenys paranax Bolton

Strumigenys paranax Bolton

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Cameroun (Bolton, 1983: 383, not illustrated, worker), collected at Nko'emvon by D.A. Jackson, 1979; holotype worker only; .

Bolton's description (1983) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 1.7-1.8 mm; single pre-apical tooth on left mandible; a strongly clavate hair on each pronotal humerus; colour brownish-yellow.

Other Cameroun findings were one paratype worker from Fo Tabe (collector not known, 1937); other material from near Yaoundé (G. Terron) (Bolton, 1983). Also known from Gabon.

{Strumigenys pranax}The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0900627.
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