Anochetus fuliginosus Arnold

Type location South Africa (Arnold, 1948; 214, illustrated, worker); worker only described (see Bolton, 1995). Described as ranging widely in West Africa to Zaïre by Brown (1978c: 605), who has good illustrations (Fig. 3, full face, and Fig. 42, lateral) .

Arnold's (1948) description is at . Brown's (1978) description is with pellucidus at .

WORKER (Nigeria specimen) - TL 6.02 mm, HL 1.09, HW 1.09, SL 1.09 and PW 0.68 (in my guide as Anochetus species 1)
Colour very dark castaneous, lighter on the apices, antennae golden-yellow, shiny. Head coarsely striate on dorsum. Pronotum more or less longitudinally rugose. Propodeum rugoreticulate. Petiolar node a thick scale with the apex bluntly concave, and a rectangular sub-petiolar process. Eyes large, length 0.31 mm.

In Nigeria collected on a mature cocoa tree, from a crevice containing vegetable debris, soil and arthropod remains. Brown (1978c) reported a specimen from on a cocoa tree trunk at CRIN (B. Bolton).

Listed by Room (1971) as found three times in his cocoa canopy collections in southern Ghana. Presumably those included the specimens reported from Aburi (2 workers, P. Room) by Brown (1978c), who also listed a specimen from Mampong (1 worker, D. Leston).

Brown (1978c) also noted a small nest series from Monrovia, Liberia (E.S. Ross and R.E. Leech).