Cerapachys villiersi Bernard
  Type locality Guinea
(Cerapachys villiersi n. sp.,
Bernard, 1952: 215, illustrated) from Mt. Nimba, holotype worker only,
from sifting leaf litter in primary forest, Nimba, north-east, ix.1946,
by Villiers (also see Bolton, 1995); worker described  .
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WORKER: TL 2.6 mm;
colour uniform brown-red, shiny, appendages dark yellow. Head, thorax
and petiole with large deep puncturations, spaced out, intervening
space brilliantly shiny. Gastral puncturation rather finer. Dense
oblique white pilosity all over the body and appendages. Head shorter
than in cribrinodis, posterior angles less pronounced; vertex
excavated in a feeble arc, less than semi-circular. Eyes smaller, with
ca. 90 facets; lightly convex, posterior border level with the
mid-point of the head. Mandibles and antennae of the common genus form.
Thorax profile feebly convex; face of propodeal declivity flat, finely
bordered. Petiole high, posterior face overall concave in profile, not
rectilinear as its cousins; subpetiolar process a yellowish flange,
with 3 anterior points and one posterior. Postpetiole convex
anteriorly, projecting much less ventrally than cribrinodis.
Bernard (1952) felt that, unlike cribrinodis,
this
species, in common with other ants from Nimba, has affinity with
southern African forms.
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