Plectroctena cryptica Bolton
  Type location Ghana
(Bolton, 1974b: 327, illustrated, head only, worker and putative
queen) from Tafo, B Bolton - see below
worker & queen only known  .
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 Bolton's description
(1974b) is at 
WORKER - smallest of the genus, TL 5.7-6.1 mm; head
coarsely punctate, the diameter of the punctures greater than the
distances separating them. Dorsal alitrunk with similar but more widely
spaced and fainter punctures, the mesonotum and propodeum with a
narrow, polished, virtually unsculptured median strip. First gastral
tergite without a transverse anterior groove. Sparse, decumbent
pubescence on head pointing towards the midline. Colour deep red-brown .
Found at CRIG (B. Bolton (2.i.1969), probably
originating from an area of soil which was being excavated.
Also known from Ivory Coast, 3 paratype workers,
at Lamto (J. Lévieux, 11.iv.1968, 20.vi.1968, 21.ii.1969); and perhaps Liberia,
a queen at Monrovia (Bolton, 1974b). Bolton & Brown (2002) added
Ivory Coast, Tai Forest, by T. Diomande, Abidjan, Adiopodoume, by I.
Löbl; Ghana, Mt. Atewa, by D. Leston.
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The photomontage of the holotype worker is
collated from 
The
photomontage is derived from images at