Oligomyrmex (Aeromyrma) vorax (Santschi)

Minor - Type location Ghana (Aeromyrma vorax, Santschi, 1914d: 358, minor) collected at Aburi by F. Silvestri; minor only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at .

Listed by Room (1971) from leaf litter under cocoa and bananas at the Mampong Cemetery farm in Ghana.

The photomontage of the type minor worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913505.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Oligomyrmex (Aeromyrma) vorax B Taylor det.

Ghana S Sky Stephens 06G0091

2006

in personal collection of S Sky Stephens

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Specimens in CRIN collection labelled Oligomyrmex species A, were from Ghana, minors only, TL 1.01 mm; not drawn. Colour yellow; sculpturation of head and alitrunk coarsely reticulopunctate; on lateral propodeum puncturations are distinctly separated from each other. Erect hairs moderately abundant all over; long pilosity on the head. Propodeal spines minute, triangular, halfway down declivity which is a smooth curve after a steep rise from the metanotal groove.

The photomontage is of a minor specimen from Ghana, collected by S Sky Stephens, May-August 2006, in a forest reserve.