Pachycondyla (Bothroponera) silvestrii Santschi

Type location Ghana (Santschi, 1914d: 313, worker) collected at Aburi by F. Silvestri, in 1913; subspecies nimba (Bothroponera silvestrii r. nimba, Bernard, 1952: 190, illustratad, worker) from Guinea, Mt. Nimba; worker only described; see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at .

Nigeria specimens - WORKER - TL 5.32 mm, HL 1.18, HW 1.03, SL 0.93, PW 0.81 (in my guide as Bothroponera silvestrii).

Overall colour very dark red-brown, lighter on extremities. Generally finely punctate, coarser on gaster, overall with relatively dense pilosity.

Bernard (1952) recorded the Guinea finding of 9 workers at savanna sample site D, Kéoulenta, at 500 m, and site E, higher up at Nion (among the crest scrub), plus 3 workers from undefined localities. He noted the specimens were somewhat different to those from Aburi, Ghana, being black-brown, with the head and appendages dark red; also the pronotum was more convex and the petiole hemispherical but almost square in dorsal view.

I collected it in Nigeria, from nests in a dead log, in rotting wood and in the ground under an old tree stump.

The photomontage is of a specimen from Ghana, collected by S Sky Stephens, 2006. Other images can be seen in the folder at - .

The photomontage is of a specimen from Gabon, Pongara National Park, Gabon 99 24.vii.2006; on or under bark Okoumé; collector Yves Braet. Other images can be seen in the folder at .