Viticicola tessmanni variety castanea, Wheeler, 1922

Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269 : 112

Viticicola tessmanni variety castanea , new variety

Worker and Female (dealated).-In all respects like the typical form except in the color of the body and legs, which are pale chestnut brown, with the antennae paler and more yellowish.

Of this variety Mr. Lang took numerous workers and females from two colonies at Avakubi. They were nesting in the same species of liana as the typical form.