Pyramica (Serrastruma) braeti Taylor new species

Type location Congo from Brazzaville, collected by Yves Braet & Eric Zassi, pitfall trap, 19.viii.2007; holotype worker only known .

WORKER DESCRIPTION: Dorsum of head and alitrunk with conspicuous narrow spatulate ground-pilosity, longer than in related species; mandible with no obvious teeth or even denticles; propodeal spines acute, triangular; spongiform appendages on petiole and postpetiole much reduced; postpetiole almost twice as wide as long; pronotal humeri without a long, fine flagellate hair; sculpturation densely spiculate on head and alitrunk, pedicel and gaster unsculptured and smooth.
TL ca 1.8 mm; HW 0.38, HL 0.48, CI 87, SL 0.26, SI 65, PW 0.27

Oxford University Museum specimens

Pyramica braeti B Taylor det.

Congo Y Braet t-1-4

19.viii.2007 Brazzaville 4° 15' 33" S 15° 17' 5" E

24h pitfall trap; forest around the GERDIB laboratories; 317 m asl

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The photomontage is of the holotype worker from Congo, Brazzaville, collectors Yves Braet & Eric Zassi (t-1-4), pitfall trap, 19.viii.2007