Anochetus pellucidus Emery
 Type
location Cameroun (Emery, 1902c: 14, worker - paper
incorrectly referenced in Bolton, 1995) collected by Conradt; junior
synonym aurifrons (Santschi, 1910c: 351, worker) from Congo,
Brazzaville, by A. Weiss; worker only described (Brown, 1978: 558;
Bolton, 1995)  .
Emery's (1902c) description is at
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Santschi's (1910c) description is at
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Brown's (1978) description is at
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WORKER - TL 5.07 mm, HL 1.09, HW 1.09, SL 1.09 and PW 0.59
Colour golden-yellow, with a shiny transparent cuticle. Head very
finely striate, most noticeably on the dorsum. Alitrunk spiculate
especially on the propodeum. Petiolar node a scale with a transversely
rectangular apex. Eyes large, length 0.28 mm.
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 Bernard (1952) recorded a single specimen from Guinea; from
Nimba, Camp IV, 1000 m (Lamotte, vi-1942), with a slightly bifid
dorsal margin to the petiole.
From
Nigeria, Brown (1978c) examined a single worker from in a
cocoa tree trunk at CRIN (B. Bolton), I collected it nesting in debris
in a cocoa jorquette.
In Ghana, collected by pyrethrum knockdown at Kade by Majer
(1975, 1976b), with 27-33 workers per sample. Found in six of Room's
(1971) collections from cocoa canopy in southern Ghana. Seven workers
were collected by pkd from two areas of the canopy, and one worker
from the ground, in a block of Amelonado cocoa by Bigger (1981a).
Brown (1978c) had examined specimens from 9-10 km north of Takoradi (2
workers, E.S. Ross and R.E. Leech), Adeiso, pkd (3 workers, D. Leston)
and CRIG, from under cocoa bark (1 worker, B. Bolton).
Cameroun specimens seen by Brown (1978c) came from Ekok, 30
km east of Tekmo (E.S. Ross and K. Lorenzen). He also reported
findings from Banco Forest, Ivory Coast (1 worker running on a
large rotten log in primary forest, W.L. Brown); Zaïre
and Gabon.
The photomontage is collated from
http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0010782
The fits the general description of pellucidus although the
eyes seem somewhat smaller than defined by Brown (1978). Collection
Information: Anochetus n. sp. cam-05 (Specimen Images)
Specimen Code CASENT0010782 Locality Cameroon: Sud: Res. de Faune de
Campo, Massif des Mamelles, 15.1 km 84° E Ébodjé;
02°35'39"N 009°57'34"E 180 m; Collection codes:
BLF02296; Date: 4 Apr 2000; Collected by: B.L.Fisher; Method: EC19
sifted litter; Habitat: rainforest |
