Pyramica (Smithistruma) hensekta (Bolton)
Type location Ghana (Bolton, 1983: 293, illustrated, full-face
view, worker), collected at Mampong by P. M. Room, 9.ii.1970; holotype
worker and 4 paratype workers
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Bolton's description (1983) is at
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WORKER - TL 2.0-2.1 mm; distinguished by the transverse clypeal
margin, head broad and short; colour uniform dull yellow.
Other Ghana records from CRIG (D. Leston) and Mampong (P. M.
Room). Since described as widespread (58 workers from 9 sites) in
their leaf litter samples in the semi-deciduous forest zone by Belshaw
& Bolton (1994b).
Also from Ivory Coast at Divo (L. Brader); Cameroun,
near Yaoundé (G. Terron); Gabon and Angola (Bolton, 1983).
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