Paratrechina natalensis (Forel 1915)

Type location South Africa (Prenolepis (Nylanderia) Traegaordhi For. v. natalensis n. var., Forel, 1915c: 348, worker) from Durban, Natal; worker only described .

Forel's (1915c) description is at . Arnold's (1922) translation and further notes on natalensis are at .

LaPolla, Hawkes & Fisher (2011) report that the workers cannot be reliably separated from Paratechina jaegerskioeldi but the males are readily separated by the form of the genitalia. They give the distribution as: Lesotho, Mozabique, South Africa and Zimbabwe, without indicating if they had sighted males from all the countries. The male of which they show the genitalia is listed as USNM#0073580 from South Africa. They gave no information to show association between workers and males.

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0910995.

The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0235943 Locality: South Africa: Gauteng: Pretoria North gardens
Latitude: -25.6663 Longitude: 28.1653; Elevation: 1246 m
Collection Information: Collection code: PNN1-PT-F07
Collected by: P. Hawkes, M. Clark
Habitat: grassland
Date collected: 29 Mar 2006
Date collected end: 31 Mar 2006
Method: pitfall trap

The photomontage of a male is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0396027 Locality: South Africa: South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal: Umtamvuna Nature Reserve
Latitude: -31.0451 Longitude: 30.168; Elevation: 220 m
Locality Notes:
Collection Information:
Collection code: KW00-W47; Collected by: S. Van Noort
Habitat: Pondoland Coastal Plateau Sour Grassland
Date collected: 18 Nov 2000
Method: Winkler bag extraction leaf litter

Found with workers - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0396096