Quadristruma emmae Emery

Type location St. Thomas I., Antilles Is. (Emery, 1890b: 70, illustrated, worker; Wheeler, 1908a: 149, queen); junior synonyms clypeatus (Szabó, 1909: 27, illustrated, worker) from New Guinea, malesiana (Forel, 1913k: 83, worker & queen) from Sumatra and wheeleri (Donisthorpe, 1916a: 121, worker) from Hawaii; synonymy by Brown (1949b: 48); worker and queen described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1890b) illustrated description is at . Szabó's (1909) illustrated description of clypeatus is at . Bolton's modern description (1983) is at .

WORKER - TL 1.7-1.9 mm; colour dull yellow to pale brown (Bolton, 1983, illustrated full-face view).

Bolton (1973a) noted the single finding in Ghana of this pantropical tramp species and later reported this as a collection from Bunso (P.M. Room) (Bolton, 1983). A single worker has since been collected in Ghana from leaf litter in the semi-deciduous forest zone, under secondary forest at Nkawanda, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b). In Africa otherwise known from Equatorial Guinea, which borders southern Cameroun.

The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0005894
Collection details - Seychelle Is: Mahé; La Réserve et Brulée; 00°00'00"N 000°00'00"E, 400-500m. Collection Information: Collection codes: ANTC1249. Date: 24 May 1996. Collected by: Schodl.

The photomontage is of a queen from Ghana, collected by S Sky Stephens, 2006. Other images can be seen in the folder at -