Phrynoponera gabonensis variety fecunda, Wheeler, W. M., 1922

Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269 : 78

publication ID

20597

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6288962

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Phrynoponera gabonensis variety fecunda
status

new variety

Phrynoponera gabonensis variety fecunda   HNS , new variety

Worker and Female (dealated).-Having the coloration of the typical form, i. e., with the mandibles, frontal carinae, antennae, legs, and posterior borders of the abdominal segments red, but with the postpetiole and gaster opaque, densely and finely punctate, and with superadded coarser longitudinal punctures, or aciculations, having sharp anterior edges. The legs are somewhat more opaque and more coarsely coriaceous than in the typical gabonensis   HNS . The mandibles are shining and sparsely and coarsely punctate, as in the two preceding forms.

Described from eleven workers and one female from Akenge (type locality), eighteen workers from Medje, two from Ngayu, and one from Avakubi (Lang and Chapin). All the specimens were found in the stomachs of toads (Bufo superciliaris, polycercus, funereus, and tuberosus).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Phrynoponera

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