Anoplolepis custodiens

Distribution
This taxon was described from South Africa (Port Natal). It is also found in Kenya and Mozambique.

Biology
This species has been found attached by its mandibles to the leg of a species of Pausus.

Description
Worker. Length 2 lines. Head, thorax and legs ferruginous, and covered with a silky cinereous pile. Head emarginate behind. The thorax deeply strangulated at the base of the metathorax; the scale of the peduncle narrow, incrassate, obtuse above. Abdomen ovate, black, and covered with grey silky pile.