Pyramica (Smithistruma) enkara (Bolton)
Type location Ivory Coast (Bolton, 1983: 301, illustrated,
full-face view, worker), found in the Banco Forest, in a dead trunk in
primary forest, by I. Löbl, 3.iii.1977; holotype worker and one
paratype worker .
Bolton's description (1983) is at
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WORKER - TL 2.4 mm; separable from minkara by having a
shorter head and scapes; colour dark brown, gaster blackish-brown.
Other specimens from Ghana, at CRIG (D. Leston; C.A.
Collingwood); Ivory Coast, at Lamto (W.H. Gotwald); and Cameroun,
near Yaoundé (G. Terron).
Later collected in Ghana from leaf litter in the
semi-deciduous forest zone (7 workers), under primary forest at Sui
Forest Reserve and secondary forest at Bunso, by Belshaw & Bolton
(1994b).
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