Plagiolepis rogeri

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Oriental Region: India.

Nomenclature

 *  rogeri. Plagiolepis rogeri Forel, 1894c: 417 (w.) INDIA.

Description
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from Bingham 1903.

Worker

Very similar to P. jerdonii in colour, but the head is very finely and very distinctly longitudinally striate, and both pilosity and pubescence are more abundant, the latter especially dense on the scape of the antennae and the tarsi. Head slightly longer than in P. jerdonii, with the posterior margin transverse but not emarginate and with the lateral occipital angles less prominent; mandibles triangular, broader; clypeus more distinctly carinate, opaque, not shining. Thorax narrower, the pro- and mesonotum not so convex, the meso-metanotal emargination shallow and not so well-marked as in P. jerdoni. Node of the pedicel and abdomen similar to those of P. jerdonii. the former very strongly inclined to the front.

Length - 1.5 mm

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
 * Tiwari R. N. 1999. Taxonomic studies on ants of southern India (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 18(4): 1-96.