The Ants of Africa
Genus Anochetus
Anochetus sedilloti Emery
{Anochetus sedilloti}

Anochetus sedilloti Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server}Type location Tunisia (Emery, 1884a: 377, illustrated, worker; Santschi, 1907: 325, male); junior synonym indicus (Forel, 1900c: 61, worker, queen & male) from India; all forms described (Brown, 1978: 559, Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1884a) description is at {original description}. Santschi's (1907) description of the male is at {original description}. Brown (1978c) gave a description at {original description}.


{Anochetus sedilloti}Brown (1978c) gives no more than a summary description of it as being a medium sized species with large eyes and a thick, often barrel-shaped petiolar node, rounded at the summit; antennal scapes short to moderate in length; widespread sculpture.

The photomontage is collated from Antbase.org

Brown described it as widespread in Africa, having seen worker samples from Ghana, at Legon (D. Leston), Sudan and Eritrea and sighting records from Senegal, Chad and Timbuktu (in Santschi, 1930a: 55, also Mali, Koulouba, by Andrieu, vi.1928). It is known also from western India.

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