Type location Ethiopia (Myrmicaria distincta Sants. stirps abyssinica, Santschi, 1925c: 163, illustrated - antenna, worker) Mission de Bonchamps, Michel & Patter, 1899 - see below
Santschi's (1925c) description (illustration, right, titled "M. distincta") is at .
The photomontage of the syntype worker of abyssinica is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0913035.
This lacks erect hairs on the alitrunk and there are very few on the scapes
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