Polyrhachis regesa Bolton
  Type location Ghana
(Bolton, 1973b: 337, illustrated worker), collected at Mampong, by P.M.
Room, 12.iii.1970 - see below; presumably one of the cocoa canopy samples of Room,
1971); a paratype worker was collected at Adeiso by pkd (D. Leston,
17.vi.1970)  .
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WORKER - TL 4.4-4.8 m; entirety of body with numerous,
erect
white hairs, noticeably longer on tibiae and scapes; pubescence fine,
greyish, least abundant on head. Colour black, alitrunk more dull than
gaster which is dully shiny, appendages brown, terminally yellow-brown
(Bolton, 1973b, illustrated, full body dorsal view, alitrunk and
pedicel profile, anterior petiole).
Rigato (2016) added - REP. of the CONGO: Niari Region,
2.30757 S 12.82985 E, 660 m, 3.vii.2013, primary forest, canopy fogging
(L.Niemand) (5 w, AFRC: LN-RC1 43, 103–106/CASENT0250025–28, CASENT0250034). Images not on Antweb (June 2018).
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photomontage of the holotype worker is collated from