The Ants of Africa Maps, Illustrations, Figures & Tables

Note The 400 or so drawings and scanned images of individual ant species are not listed here.

Maps

• Map of colonial Africa, post-1918
• The vegetation zones of West Africa
• The location of ant collection areas in Ghana, Togo and Benin
• Map of the forest zone of Ghana
• Map of the area of south-eastern Ghana - with sites of farms surveyed by P.M. Room
• Nigeria ant collection locations and cocoa growing areas
• The cocoa growing area of western Nigeria - with the 76 farms surveyed by S.F. Adedoyin
• The location of ant collection and cocoa areas in Cameroun
• Ivory Coast ant collection locations and cocoa growing area
• The location of ant collection areas in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, and Senegal
• The location of ant collection areas in the Congo Basin prior to 1920

Illustrations

• The Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, 1975
• The Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, 1975
• Map of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, 1975
• View through cocoa canopy (Amelonado, W 9/1 mapping site, CRIN, 1975
• Mosaics - Nigeria - View across the E5/1 site, taken at mid-day to show insolated areas at the time of the summer solstice
• The Onipe 1/1 site, more typical of farmers' cocoa
• Area of secondary forest, with remnant climax trees, at CRIN, Nigeria
• Area of secondary forest, viewed across the golf course, at CRIG, Ghana
• Base of giant silk cotton (Bombax sp.) tree, at CRIN, Nigeria
• Examples of ant tents leading to black pod infections, CRIN, 1975
• Example of an ant tent (built of soil by Pheidole megacephala) as the "source" of a black pod infection sequence, Onipe 1/1, CRIN, 1975
• Typical nest site of Crematogaster africana, constructed of "carton" high on a silk cotton tree, CRIN, Nigeria
• Typical nest of Crematogaster clariventris, constructed of "carton" on the lower trunk of a (cocoa) tree, CRIN, Nigeria
• Typical nest of Crematogaster zavattarii (nr gabonensis), constructed of "carton" and under flaky bark on a (cocoa) tree, CRIN, Nigeria
• Site of a typical nest of Myrmicaria fumata in insolated ground, CRIN, Nigeria
• Site of a typical tent built by Myrmicaria fumata on a cocoa pod, CRIN, Nigeria
• Site of a typical nest of Odontomachus troglodytes among the roots of a cocoa tree, CRIN, Nigeria
• Typical nest of Oecophylla longinoda, using larval silk to "weave" together cocoa leaves, CRIN, Nigeria
• Typical nest of Tetramorium aculeatum on the underside of a cocoa leaf, CRIN, Nigeria

Figures

• Map of the farm on the Mampong road in south-eastern Ghana, surveyed by P.M. Room
• Mosaics - Evidence from Nigeria - the S1/1 block
• Mosaics - Evidence from Nigeria - the E5/1 Block - general view of the ant distribution
• Mosaics - Evidence from Nigeria - the E5/1 Block - the distribution of Camponotus acvapimensis
• The ant mosiac at the Onipe Block, CRIN, Nigeria, 1975
• Mosaics - Nigeria - Associations between ant species at CRIN, 1975
• Mosaics - Nigeria - Associations between ant species, 76-farm survey, 1976
• Mosaics - Nigeria - The development of the ant mosaic in Nigerian cocoa as time progresses from planting
• Mosaics - Cameroun - the Jackson site at Nko'emvon, 1980
• Summary of the more common ant mosaic situations

Tables

• Abundance of ants on cocoa in Ghana, extrapolated from Strickland (1951a)
• Ants from cocoa in Ghana - Room and Majer, 1969-72
• Ants from leaf litter in Ghana - Belshaw & Bolton, 1991-2
• Mosaics - Nigeria - Associations between ant species at CRIN, 1975
• Mosaics - Nigeria - Results of ant surveys in Nigeria, 1975-76
• Ants from cocoa in Nigeria - Taylor and Adedoyin, 1974-76
• Ants from modern collecting in Nigeria, other than on cocoa
• Ants from forest in Cameroun - Dejean et al, 1991-92
• Ants from forest and other surveys in Cameroun

©2007 - Brian Taylor CBiol FIBiol FRES 11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K.

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