Paratrechina subtilis (Santschi)

Type location Senegal (Prenolepis (Nylanderia) subtilis, Santschi, 1920g: 174, worker); subspecies termitophila (Santschi, 1921c: 122, worker) from Cameroun, Douala, collected by von Rothkirch; worker only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1920g) description is at . Santschi's (1921c) description of termitophila is at . Found in a termite nest; antennae more slender and head more rounded behind than the type.

Paratrechina species T² Nigeria specimens

TL 1.74 mm, HL 0.47, HW 0.45, SL 0.54, PW 0.28

Overall colour yellow-brown, darker on gaster, shiny. Dense pubescence on head and gaster, both with abundant erect hairs. Four pairs of long erect hairs in the main on the dorsal alitrunk and two pairs of smaller hairs outside the main line on the pronotum. Promesonotal suture distinct but not the metanotal suture.

In Nigeria, it nests in dead wood on the ground and in soil. Observed foraging on cocoa, where it tends aphids and builds soil tents; also found on coffee.

The photomontage is of a specimen from Gabon; Pongara National Park, Pointe Wingombe 0°19'336"N 9°19'102"E, 9-27.vi.2006, from malaise trap at edge of savannah forest, collector Yves Braet. Other images can be seen in the folder at -