Pyramica (Epitritus) roomi (Bolton)
Type location Ghana (Epitritus roomi, Bolton, 1971b:
206, illustrated, worker & queen)
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Bolton's description is at
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WORKER - TL 1.9 mm; has five funicular segments, and two elongate
flattened hairs from each mandibular blade; colour medium brown
(Bolton, 1971b, 1983 illustrated full-face view).
The holotype worker and a paratype female, plus a later worker,
described by Bolton were collected from cocoa leaf litter and on open
ground under Lanthanus at the Mampong Cemetery farm in Ghana
(P.M. Room, 10.iv.1970; in Room, 1971). Also described as
widespread in their collections from leaf litter (53 workers plus 16
from soil samples at 12 sites) in the semi-deciduous forest zone by
Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).
Now known also from Cameroun, near Yaoundé (G.
Terron); and Ivory Coast, Issoneu (V. Mahnert & J.-L.
Perret). |