The Ants of Africa
Genus Plagiolepis
Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis) simoni Emery

Subgenus Anacantholepis Santschi

Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis) simoni Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Lesotho (Emery, 1921d: 317, illustrated, worker); worker only known (see Bolton, 1995) .

{Plagiolepis simoni}Emery's (1921d) description is at - {original description}.

{Plagiolepis simoni}The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0905141

{Plagiolepis simoni}The photomontage of a worker from South Africa is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0235986

but I feel it is simoni and not fuscula, which was described as having a gibbous (domed) proppdeum and rufescent appendages,
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