The Ants of Africa
Genus Anochetus
Anochetus sudanicus Weber

Anochetus sudanicus Weber

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server}Type locality South Sudan (Anochetus sudanicus, sp. nov., Weber, 1942a: 47, illustrated, worker; revived from synonymy under Anochetus traegaordi, of Brown, 1978c: 559) from Long Village, base of the Imatong Mts, 29.vii.1939.
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

With the fresh specimens of this and Anochetus traegaordhi, I have revived sudanicus from the Brown synonymy


{Anochetus traegaordhi}Weber's (1942a) description is at {original description}.

The photomontage is of the holotype of Anochetus sudanicus Weber (1942a). The original photographs, together with enlarged images, are from the MCZ, Harvard University, website at http://mcz-28168.oeb.harvard.edu/mcz/FMPro?-DB=Image.fm&-Lay=web&-Format=images.htm&Species_ID=26107&-Find.


Oxford University Museum specimens

Anochetus sudanicus
B Taylor det.

Senegal
Tambacounda
B Ndiaye
Niakafiri
13°09'40" N
12°06'46" W
Niakafiri 5-VIII-09 St 6 Nid
213 m; Soudanian savannah, nest, hand, collection
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{Anochetus sudanicus}The photomontage is of a worker specimen collected from Senegal, Tambacounda; collector B Ndiaye.

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