Strumigenys hastyla Bolton
  Type location Burundi
(Bolton, 1983: 372, not illustrated, worker) Bujumbura, 1977, A Dejean  .
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 Nigeria specimen (as Strumigenys scotti,
Taylor, 1979: 49). WORKER. TL 1.71 mm, HL 0.50, HW 0.36, SL 0.23, PW
0.23
No preocular notch. Mandibles with the preapical teeth both moderately
long and apical pair. Head, dorsal alitrunk and petiole finely
reticulate; lateral alitrunk postpetiole and gaster shiny. Erect hairs
sparse, long with only slight apical thickening; also a pair of long
sinuous hairs at the humeral angles of the pronotum; decumbent hairs on
the head, these also with only slight apical thickening. Midventral
spongiform process of petiole along entire length; narrow dorsolateral
strip on petiole; postpetiole processes moderate; colour
brownish-yellow.
Found under a fallen banana stem at the Cocoa Research Institute of
Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, by B. Bolton (in Bolton, 1983).
Ivory Coast records from Dropleu, Man and Mongaga
(V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret), Banco Forest (I. Lôl;bl), Anguédédou
and Nzi Noua (W.L. & D.E. Brown). From Cameroun, at
Victoria (B. Malkin) and near Yaoundé (G. Terron). Others from Gabon
(Plateau d'Ipassa, J. A. Barra), and Angola
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The photomontage of the holotype is collated from