The Ants of Africa
Genus Myrmicaria Myrmicaria arnoldi Santschi
Myrmicaria arnoldi Santschi
Type location Zimbabwe
(Myrmicaria arnoldi n. nov.,
Santschi, 1925c: 159, all forms) Arnold - no images on Antweb
(September 2016)
all forms described (see
Bolton,
1995) .
Santschi's
(1925c) description is at based on that of "striata"
given by Arnold (1916: 296, illustrated, worker) - that is at . Santschi himself justified the denotation
of a new species because the Arnold material was smaller and plainer;
had more slender tibiae; had the petiole higher than the postpetiole
(equisized in striata); the propodeal spines finer and no
obvious promesonotal suture.