The Ants of Africa
Genus Cerapachys
Cerapachys coxalis (Arnold)
{Cerapachys coxalis}

Cerapachys coxalis (Arnold)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} {Cerapachys coxalis}Type locality Zimbabwe (Phyracaces coxalis, Arnold, 1926: 193, illustrated, worker), worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Arnold's (1926) description is at {original description}.

Nigeria specimens - TL 3.11 mm, HL 0.62, HW 0.54, SL 0.34, PW 0.44 (in my guide as Phyracaces species) Colour black, shiny. Extremities red-brown. Sculpturation much reduced, minute foveolae on petiole and gaster. Sparse coarse hairs on head and alitrunk. Antenna 12-segmented with apical three segments forming a club. Node of petiole distinctly marginate laterally, armed posterodorsally with a pair of small teeth.

In Nigeria collected from a twig in cocoa leaf litter (B. Bolton).

{Cerapachys coxalis} The photomontage of a cotype specimen is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0173076&shot=p1&project=null
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