Crematogaster (Oxygyne) donisthorpei Santschi
Type location Zimbabwe
(Crematogaster (Oxygyne) donsithorpei
n. sp., Santschi, 1934a: 188, all forms) - see below
All forms described (see Bolton,
1995) .
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The photomontage is compiled from screenshots of the ant
from a film "The Queen of Trees", on Ficus sycomorus L.
(Sycamore Fig - found throughout eastern Africa and north into Egypt
and Syria); filmed, directed and produced by Mark Deeble & Victoria
Stone; scientific advisor Stephen Compton, BBC Natural World series,
2005. The film is set in southern Kenya (Mzima?). Despite the
limitations of the image, the overall characters match those given by
Santschi, notably, the erect hairs on the anterior of the clypeus, the
impressed median line on the head, the deep metanotal suture, and the
median notch in the posterior border of the postpetiole.
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