Plectroctena anops Bolton
  Type location Ghana
(Bolton, 1974b: 326, illustrated, holotype worker) - see below; worker
only known
(see Bolton, 1974b: 326, Bolton, 1995)  .
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WORKER - Small, TL 7.4 mm; eyes absent. Mandibles
without a
differentiated basal tooth, the apex swollen. Propodeal lamina strongly
developed, continuous around the dorsum and sides of the declivity.
First gastral tergite without a transverse groove anteriorly. Dorsum of
head with large pits or foveolae whose diameter is greater than the
distances separating them (Bolton, 1974b: 319, illustrated, head and
petiole, worker). Colour red-brown.
A blind subterranean species from Ghana, known
only
from the holotype worker, which was collected at CRIG, in an ant
ecology sample (D. Leston, 8.ix.1966) (Bolton, 1974b). Belshaw &
Bolton (1994b) did not find it in their extensive leaf litter sampling.
Bolton & Brown (2002) added Ghana, Kwadaso, by J. Plisko.
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