Corrections

Before I disappeared for Easter I visited the London Natural History Museum to compare my some of my Gambian specimens with ant specimens in their collection. As a result, I have a few changes to make, but need to do a bit more work before I make them. Until I change the posts, this will hopefully caution against relying on previous posts.

I had misidentified the following species:

• Camponotus cosmicus - more likely within what can best be described as the vestitus complex.
• Monomorium dolatu - doesn't appear to be any of the species included in Bolton (1987). I had suspected that this was the case, but without checking reference material went with the closest option.

I had correctly identified these species:

• Monomorium exiguum
• M. rosae
• M. osiridis
• M. vonatu
• M. egens
• Dorylus affinis

These species are perhaps open to debate, as I couldn't conclusively establish whether they were the same species or different:

• Camponotus rufoglaucus controversus - slight differences in setae and pubescence but the specimens checked were not types and were majors only.
• Camponotus olivieri lemma and delagoensis - I couldn't check these subspecies.
• Crematogaster impressa - the specimens present were collected by Donisthorpe and did not appear to be the same as mine or each other. Chances are this species and C. excisa will not be resolved until the taxonomy is revised.