Nesomyrmex grisoni (Forel)

Type location Zaïre (Leptothorax (Goniothorax) Grisoni, Forel, 1916: 425, worker & male) St Gabriel, Kohl
worker and male described (latter given wrongly as queen in Bolton, 1995); genus name change by Bolton (2003: 249) .

Forel's (1916) description is at . Bolton's modern description (1982) is at

WORKER - TL 2.9-3.4 mm; very similar to angulatus in appearance, except for very dark colour, being uniform blackish-brown to black, and with more intense sculpturation (Bolton, 1982: 329, not illustrated).

Collected from under the bark of a mango tree, at St. Gabriel, Zaïre, by H Kohl.

The photomontage of a cotype is collated from http://mcz-28168.oeb.harvard.edu/mcz/FMPro?-DB=Image.fm&-Lay=web&-Format=images.htm&Species_ID=31797&-Find

From Ghana, listed by Majer (1975, 1976b), as Leptothorax species near grisoni Forel, from cocoa at Kade, collected by pkd, with 2-4 workers per sample. Bolton (1982) listed that record, as well as CRIG (himself) and Asamankese (P.M. Room, presumably Leptothorax species B recorded once in a cocoa canopy sample, by Room, 1971).

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0908994