The Ants of Africa
Genus Pyramica
Pyramica (Smithistruma) fulda (Bolton)

Pyramica (Smithistruma) fulda (Bolton)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ivory Coast (Smithistruma fulda sp. n., Bolton, 1983: 282, illustrated, full-face view, worker), from Issoneu, collected by V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret, 12.x.1980; holotype worker only known .


{Pyramica (Smithistruma) fulda}Bolton's description (1983) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 2.0 mm; 4-segmented antennae; recognisable by massive angular extension of the antennal scape, plus shape and pilosity of clypeus; colour dark brown to blackish-brown, appendages lighter.

Two workers were collected in Ghana from leaf litter under primary forest at Sui Forest Reserve in the semi-deciduous forest zone, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).


{Pyramica (Smithistruma) fulda}

The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102544.

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