The Ants of Africa
Genus Pyramica
Pyramica (Serrastruma) geoterra (Bolton)

Pyramica (Serrastruma) geoterra (Bolton)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Cameroun (Bolton, 1983: 341, illustrated, full-face view) collected near Yaoundé by G. Terron; holotype and one paratype worker only - see (damaged) paratype at http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0900063 .

{Pyramica (Serrastruma) geoterra}Bolton's description (1983) is at {original description}.

WORKER - TL 2.6-2.7 mm; very distinctive, with broad upper scrobe margin, separable from maynei by having an absolutely smooth alitrunk; colour glossy brown, legs with dense scale-like pilosity.

{Strumigenys geoterra}The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0178306. From Kenya, shown in Antweb list as Pyramica geoterra.
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