Paratrechina silvula (LaPolla & Fisher)
  Type location Kenya
(Nylanderia silvula, LaPolla & Fisher, 2011: 22,
illustrated, worker, queen and male),
from Kakamega Forest, Isecheno, Isecheno; 0.02° N, 34.97° E, 1800 m, 16
Oct 1999 (coll. R.R. Snelling) (LACM); 13 paratype workers, 1 paratype
male, same label data as holotype (LACM, USNM  .
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Description.
Overall dark reddish-brown, with slightly
lighter mandibles and antennae; trochanters, mesocoxae, and meta-coxae
yellowish to whitish; cuticle shining, with head, mesonotum (extending
to mesopleuron), metanotal area, and propodeum rugulose. Posterior
margin of head with rounded posterolateral corners, slightly emarginate
medi- ally. Scapes surpass posterior margin by about length of the
first 3–3.5 funicular segments; scapes extremely set- ose, with erect
macrosetae of varying lengths and a layer of decumbent pubescence (SMC
= 45–60). Mesosoma with erect setae of varying lengths (PMC = 3–7; MMC
= 2–4); in profile, pronotum elongate, with a linear rise towards
mesonotum; metanotal area elongate; dorsal face of propodeum dome-like,
slightly higher to even with the mesonotum; dorsal face and declivitous
face about the same length; propodeum with scattered short appressed to
decumbent pubescence. Gaster shining, with abundant erect macrosetae.
Measurements (n
= 8): TL 2.8–3.3 HW 0.63–0.73 HL
0.76–0.81 EL
0.18–0.21 SL 0.95–1.04 PW 0.45–0.51 WL 0.97–1.12 GL 1.04–1.35
Indices: CI
84–90 REL 22–26 SI 142–151
Sole location was as for holotype.
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