Anochetus sedilloti Emery
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)
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Emery's (1884a) description is at
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Santschi's (1907) description of the male is at
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Brown (1978c) gave a description at
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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. |