Terataner piceus Menozzi
Type location Equatorial Guinea (Menozzi, 1942: 173, worker);
collector H. Eidemann, in 1939-40; see Bolton, 1995); worker only
described  .
Menozzi's (1942) description is at
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Bolton's modern description (1981b) is at
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WORKER - TL 4.6-5.5 mm; separable from velatus by a lack of
rugular sculpture on the promesonotum and a lack of hairs on the first
gastral tergite. Colour mid-brown to blackish-brown (Bolton, 1981b,
illustrated but only the pedicel).
Other findings recorded by Bolton (1981b) included a collection at
CRIN by himself, the only finding from Nigeria. Also from
Cameroun, at Nko'emvon (D.A. Jackson).
From Ghana, Bolton (1981b) listed findings at Sajimasi and
Aburi (by D. Leston) and Mampong (by P.M. Room). By deduction, it may
have been the Terataner species A collected by Room (1971)
from two of his cocoa canopy sample sites. In a later paper on the
fauna of cocoa mistletoe, Room (1972a) described it as a mimic of Crematogaster
africana, as it uses that ant's trails and copies its habit of
bending the gaster over the alitrunk. He confused the question of
species by listing Terataner species 37 as the only Terataner
on cocoa mistletoe in Ghana by Room (1975). It was also collected
by Bigger (1981a) at CRIG, 2 workers by pkd from Amelonado cocoa
canopy. A single specimen was collected from secondary forest leaf
litter at Nkawanda, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b), who regarded it
as a 'tourist' from off trees.
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