Anochetus maynei Forel
 Type
location Zaïre (as a variety of pellucidus,
Forel 1913h: 347, queen only; raised to full species by Brown,
1978c: 601, illustrated, worker) collected at Congo da Lemba, by R
Mayné; worker and queen described (see Bolton, 1995)
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Forel's (1913h) description of the queen is at
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Brown's (1978c) description of the worker is at
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WORKER - HL 1.50 mm, HW 1.38, eye length 0.30 mm, from Brown
(1978, illustrated, Fig. 25).
Characters as in key, plus stout almost peg-like profile to
petiole, seen from above the apex is lunate.
Brown based his elevation to species on specimens from Ghana,
at CRIG and Kade (D. Leston), the labels indicated "active at
night". A single worker was collected in leaf litter under
secondary forest at CRIG, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).
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