The Ants of Africa
Genus Centromyrmex
Centromyrmex alfaroi Emery - from Costa Rica
{Centromyrmex alfaroi}

Centromyrmex alfaroi Emery

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Costa Rica (Emery, 1890b: 40, worker; Emery, 1906c: 115, queen; see Kempf, 1967b: 404).

WORKER (adapted from Kempf, 1967b) - TL 7.75 mm; HW < HL, sides converge posteriorly; clypeus convex with elevated median tumulus; metapleurae striate; alitrunk strongly compressed at metanotum, dorsum of propodeum grading smoothly into into declivity; petiole rather short, anterior face straight and oblique, dorsum completely rounded; dark ferruginous.

{Centromyrmex alfaroi}The photomontage (right) of a specimen from Costa Rica is derived from the images at http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=CASENT0010795.
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