Viticicola tessmanni (Stitz)

Brown, W. L., 1950, Morphological, taxonomic and other notes on ants., Wasmann Journal of Biology 8, pp. 241-250 : 248

Viticicola tessmanni (Stitz) .

Sima tessmanni Stitz , 1910, Mitteilungen Zoologisches Museum in Berlin, 5:131, fig. 2, worker.

Viticicola tessmanni var. castanea Wheeler , 1922, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 45:112, worker, [[queen]]. (New synonymy.)

Wheeler cited the color as "pale chestnut brown." The present color of the types, which may have faded a little, is light yellowish brown, or only a little darker than other Congo specimens of V. tessmanni . Since both the light and dark forms were taken from the same plant, Vitex staudtii, from the same very uniform area in the Ituri Basin, the very slight difference in color does not appear to be sufficient evidence for the separation of races or species from the present meager material.