Polyrhachis latispina Emery

Rigato, Fabrizio, 2016, The ant genus Polyrhachis F. Smith in sub-Saharan Africa, with descriptions of ten new species. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Zootaxa 4088 (1) : 47

Polyrhachis latispina Emery

EQUAT. GUINEA: Fernando Poo [currently Bioko], Musola, 500-800 m, i–iii.1902 (L. Fea) (1 w, MSNG). CAMEROUN: Ottotomo (A. Dejean) (1 w, BMNH). CENTRAL AFRICAN REP.: P.N. Dzanga–Ndoki, 38.6 km 173° S Lidjombo, 2°22’N 16°03’E, 350 m, 20–28.v.2001 #4125 (B.L. Fisher) (2 w, CAS: CASENT0009201, CASENT0009212). UGANDA: Kibale Forest N.P., Kanyawara Makerere University Biological Field Station, viii.2002 (D. Quicke & N. Laurenne) (1 w, CAS: CASENT0094704 ANTC2665). KENYA: Busumbuli, Kakamega Forest, 0.27°N 34.88°E, 1600 m, ix–x.2002, T.n. #136, fogging ex Teclea nobilis (W. Freund) (1 w, HLMD); Kakamega Distr., Isecheno, Kakamega Forest, 0.24°N 34.86°E, 1600 m, 25.iii.2003, #03-026, equatorial rainforest: ex dead, hollow vine (R.R. Snelling) (2 w, HLMD); Western Province, Kakamega Forest, Salesar, 0°19’36”N 34°52’15”E, 1650 m, primary forest, 4.vii.2009, handcoll. (G. F i s c h e r) (1 w, HLMD). TANZANIA: Amani, 5°06’S 38°38’E, 950 m, 20.xii.1990, rainforest edge ex dead twig (P.S. Wa rd) (1 w, CAS).