Cerapachys sudanensis Weber

Type locality South Sudan (Weber, 1942a: 42, illustrated, worker), Imatong Mountains, elev. 6000 feet - syntype images at http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0902714
 junior synonym variolosus (Cerapachys variolosus n. sp., Arnold, 1949: 261, illustrated, worker & queen, synonymy by Brown, 1975: 23) from Zimbabwe, Hunyani - see below
(see Bolton, 1995) .

Weber's (1942a) description is at . Arnold's (1949) illustrated description of variolosus is at .

Nigeria specimens (as Cerapachys cribrinodis, Taylor, 1976: 33). WORKER. TL 2.83 mm, HL 0.59, HW 0.47, SL 0.42, PW 0.34
Colour dark red-brown, shiny. Sculpturation only of scattered hair-pits, coarsest on petiole, each hair-pit with a single long coarse seta. Antenna 11-segmented, with only the apical segment forming a club. Eyes quite large. Gastral constriction not very deep.
Collected by me at the base of a cocoa tree and nesting under a log on the ground; also in leaf litter (B. Bolton, specimens determined by Brown, 1975: 62). Brown gave the colour of the types as mahogany to piceous and the Nigeria specimens as black - I saw others of those as dark red-brown

Probably this species also has been reported from Ghana cocoa leaf litter by Room (1971).

The photomontage of a paratype worker of variolosus is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902710.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Cerapachys sudanensis B Taylor det.

Tanzania V Grebennikov

09-11.x.2002 Usambara Mts 5°05' S 38°38' E

Amani NR, Zigi Lodge, 2200 m

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The photomontage is of a worker from the Usambara Mts, Tanzania; collector Vasily Grebennikov.