The Ants of Africa
Genus Pyramica
Pyramica (Glamyromyrmex) tetragnatha (R W Taylor)
{Glamyromyrmex tetragnatha}

Pyramica (Glamyromyrmex) tetragnatha (R W Taylor)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Angola ( Codiomyrmex tetragnathus, R W Taylor, 1965: 225, illustrated, worker; collected in 1962), from where a specimen is pictured in Hölldobler & Wilson (1990, page 107); worker only described .

Taylor's (1965) description is at - {short description of image}. Bolton's modern description (1983) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 2.4-2.8; readily distinguished by key feature; also head with posterior border with indented flat medial area, colour blackish-brown to black (Bolton, 1983, illustrated head, alitrunk and pedicel profile).

Bolton (1983: 323) includes records from Cameroun, near Yaoundé (G. Terron), and Nko'emvon (D.A. Jackson).

Room (1971) listed specimens determined as Codiomyrmex near tetragnathus Taylor (noted as a new species) from cocoa leaf litter at the Mampong Cemetery farm in Ghana (specimens apparently not seen by Bolton). Since described as widespread (31 workers from 6 sites) in leaf litter in the semi-deciduous forest zone by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

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