Diplomorium longipenne Mayr

Type location South Africa (Mayr, 1901b)
see Bolton (1987, illustrated, full face-view, head and alitrunk profile) .

Mayr's (1901b) description is at . Arnold (1916: 240) description/translation is at and, queen, . Bolton's modern description (1987) is at .

A South African specimen is pictured in Hölldobler & Wilson (1990, page 105). Bolton (1987) wrote that nothing is known of the biology of this species except that it nests in the ground.

In Ghana, Bigger (1981a) reported collecting it, 13 workers, on the ground under cocoa at CRIG, but I suspect his identification, like mine of Monomorium vaguum as Diplomorium lujae, came from specimens erroneously labelled as Diplomorium.

The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102360
Collection Information: Specimen Code CASENT0102360; Locality South Africa: Eastern Cape: [Port Elizabeth; cleaned remounted Bolton 1985]; Collection codes: ANTC4593