Anochetus siphneus Brown

Type location Ivory Coast (Brown, 1978c: 608, illustrated, worker), from Bandama River gallery forest, Lamto, (W.H. Gotwald & R. Schaefer) worker only described. Paratypes from Banco Forest, three workers (W.L. Brown). Described as restricted to the West African forest belt .

Brown's (1978c) description is at .

WORKER - Illustrated specimen TL 3.93 mm, HL 0.93, HW 0.93, SL 0.78, PW 0.47
Others: TL 4.0-4.5 mm, HL 1.04-1.14, HW 0.92-1.00, SL 0.80-0.86, PW not given (Brown, 1978, illustrated Figs. 11 and 19).
Overall colour yellow-brown, shiny. Head sparsely punctate with sparse pubescence. Pronotum sparsely punctate. Propodeum lightly rugose with a pair of prominent lateral teeth. Petiolar node a scale with a distinctly concave apex, except for the Nigerian specimens which have a flat to ovoid apex. Eyes small, length 0.08 mm.

From Ghana, at CRIG, on mud under dead leaf (B. Bolton). From Nigeria, at CRIN under fallen banana stem (B. Bolton). The drawn specimen was collected from cocoa leaf litter at CRIN (B. Bolton).

The photomontage is of the holotype. The original photographs, together with enlarged images, are from the MCZ, Harvard University, website at - MCZ link.

The photomontage is of a specimen Gabon; collector Yves Braet, 2006. Other images can be seen in the folder at -