Prionopelta amieti Terron
Type location Cameroun (Terron, 1974: 106, illustrated,
all forms); all forms described (see Bolton, 1995)
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Terron's (1974) description (that of the worker only) is at
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Holotype worker collected by Terron, from nest UF, containing 19
workers, 11 females and 2 males, at Yaoundé, 15.ii.1974, on
the University campus. Paratype workers and females were captured
at different times from around Yaoundé. He found it to be a
fairly easily found species, in soil samples using a Berlese
funnel in both the wet and dry seasons, and described it as the
only relatively common member of the Tribe Amblyoponini in forest,
degraded or not, in the Yaoundé region. In this its
dominance was similar to the situation found by Brown (1959-60) in
New Guinea and tropical America, where Prionopelta
appeared to exclude small Amblyopone. It is an endogenous
species living close to the soil surface, under dead leaves,
between tree roots or in the debris of rotting trunks. |
The photomontage of a paratype is collated from the Antweb.org site
at