Polyrhachis transiens Bolton

Type location Uganda (Bolton, 1973b: 340, illustrated, alitrunk, petiole and dorsal view; worker & queen) collected at Kampala by H. Hargreaves - see below

Worker and queen only known (see also Bolton, 1995) .

Bolton's description (1973b) is at .

WORKER - TL 7.2 mm, HL 1.63, HW 1.40, SL 1.81, PW 1.18
Similar to but larger than Polyrhachis regesa; distinguished by all surfaces with numerous short, fine erect hairs; short but dense fine greyish pubescence all over. Colour black, appendages brown and apical funiculi yellow-brown.

The photomontage of the holotype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0903463.