Oecophylla fusca Emery - revived status
  Type location Cameroon
(Oecophylla fusca n. sp.,
Emery, 1899e: 496, worker & queen; Wheeler, 1922: 229, male )
collected by Conradt  .
Also known from Liberia, Monrovia (J.Morris); Nigeria,
no details; Equatorial Guinea (Tessman) and Zaïre (see
below) (Wheeler, 1922).
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 Emery's (1899e) description is at  .
Wheeler's description (1922) was -
WORKER - differing from rubriceps
only in having the head entirely black or dark brown, though sometimes
with a reddish tinge above. Mandibles black, with dark brown teeth.
Large workers have the clypeal border very feebly sinuate in the middle
and the surface just behind it with a faint longitudinal impression.
The smallest workers are a little paler, with paler mandibles, but in
the structure of the thorax and petiole precisely like the
corresponding phase of the other forms of the species.
FEMALE - like that of rubriceps, but perhaps a shade darker.
MALE - indistinguishable from the male of rubriceps, except
that the erect white hairs on the dorsal surface of the head, thorax,
and gaster are distinctly longer and more abundant.
Redescribed from specimens taken at Kisangani [Stanleyville] and
Garamba (Lang and Chapin). There is also a worker of this variety from
Monrovia, Liberia, (J. Morris) in my collection.
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 The
photomontage of the type worker is collated http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905176.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Oecophylla species in fusca-gp
B Taylor det.
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Ivory Coast
Erena Dupont
28.i.2014
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Taï National Park
5˚45'00" N
7˚07'00" W
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YSBCI 2015-31-5-2014
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2
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Oecophylla fusca
B Taylor det. |
Cameroun
G Debout & A Dalecky
Cameroon 64
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10.iv.2001
TM
2°34.04' N
9°50.64' E
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on flowers of Leonardoxa africana africana
TM = Transect Marigot
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3
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Oecophylla fusca
B Taylor det. |
Central African
Republic
P Annoyer
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06.vi.1998
Dzanga-Sangha
02°53’ N
16°15’ E
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Bayanga-Lidjombo
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2
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Oecophylla fusca
B Taylor det. |
Liberia
E Poirier
Liabala
SLAM 2
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2.iv.2013
Nimba County
07°31’06" N
08°35’34" E
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SLAM trap
Secondary forest
473 m asl
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1
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Oecophylla fusca
B Taylor det. |
Liberia
E Poirier
Yekepa
SLAM 2
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29.iii.2013
Nimba County
07°33’38" N
08°32’33" E
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SLAM trap
Secondary forest
473 m asl
major
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2
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 The
photomontage is of major workers collected in Cameroun -
south-western tropical coastal forest area between Edéa and Campo
(McKey Wolbachia
project, Cameroon 64). The size and form are an exact match for the
Emery type major (above). The only obvious difference is the paler
gaster of the type (perhaps a product of ageing).
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 MINIMA
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 Major from
the Central African Republic, Dzanga-Sangha; collector Philippe Annoyer
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 Major from
Liberia, Liabala; collector E Poiriet (Liabala SLAM 2).
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 Major from
Ivory Coast, Tai; collector Erena Dupont.
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