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

Pyramica (Serrastruma) inquilina (Bolton)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Zaïre (Serrastruma inqulina n. sp., Bolton, 1983: 342, not illustrated), holotype female and 7 paratype females, from S. slope of Mt Kahuzi, 1900 m, 5.ix.1957, in nest of Serrastruma lujae, by E.S. Ross & R.E. Leech .


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


{Pyramica (Serrastruma) inqulinaFEMALE - TL 2.9-3.1 mm; the first known socially parasitic dacetine in the Afrotropical Region.

The photomontage of the holotype queen is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=castype14102.

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