Pyramica (Smithistruma) malaplax (Bolton)

Type location Angola (1972) (Bolton, 1983: 304, not illustrated, worker), holotype worker only; other single workers known from a second location in Angola, from Zaïre, at Yangambi, by M. Maldague; and Nigeria, at IITA (B.R. Critchley) (Bolton, 1983) .

Bolton's description (1983) is at .

WORKER - TL 2.1 mm; with a smooth post-petiolar disc, no metanotal groove, and having long stout hairs on the head confined to the clypeus; colour orange-brown, gaster blackish-brown.

Found in Ghana, at CRIG, in leaf litter (69 workers) under cocoa and primary forest by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).