The Ants of Africa
Genus Pyramica
Pyramica (Smithistruma) arahana (Bolton)

Pyramica (Smithistruma) arahana (Bolton)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Cameroun (Smithistruma arahana n. sp., Bolton, 1983: 300, worker, not illustrated), collected near Yaoundé by G. Terron; holotype worker and one paratype worker, apparently from separate samples .


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

WORKER - TL 2.5-2.6 mm; with extensive spongiform tissue behind the petiole node, thicker than the length of the node; colour dull brownish-yellow to light brown .


{Pyramica (Smithistruma) arahana}The photomontage of a paratype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0900096.

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