Pyramica (Serrastruma) concolor (Santschi)

Type location Ghana (Strumigenys (Trichoscapa) concolor n. sp., Santschi, 1914d: 375, worker & queen) from Aburi, collector F. Silvestri, 1913 - see below; (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at . Bolton's modern description (1983) is at .

WORKER - TL 2.0-2.2 mm; diagnosis as in key; separable from serrula by the limited number of standing hairs and inconspicuous ground-pilosity; also fine and indistinct punctate sculpture on pronotal dorsum; colour yellow to yellowish-brown (Bolton, 1983, illustrated, alitrunk and pedicel profile).

Also from Ghana, collected at Mampong and Aburi (P.M. Room) (not identifiable as in Room, 1971). Recently, described as widespread (238 workers from 8 sites) in their leaf litter samples in the semi-deciduous forest zone by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

Other West African records are from Ivory Coast, at Man (V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret) and at Sassandra (I. Löbl); from Cameroun, near Yaoundé (G. Terron) and on Mt. Cameroun, Buea slope (B. Malkin); from Chad, Haut Mbomu (N.A. Weber). Also further south and east in Africa.

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0912833.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Pyramica concolor B Taylor det.	Tanzania V Grebennikov	09-11.x.2002 Usambara Mts 5°05' S 38°38' E	Amani NR, Zigi Lodge, 2200 m	1
Pyramica concolor B Taylor det.	Tanzania V Grebennikov	12-16.x.2002 Usambara Mts 5°05' S 38°38' E	Amani NR HQ, 950 m	1

The photomontages are of workers from Tanzania; Usambara Mts, Zigi Lodge, Amani NR; collector Vasily Grebennikov. 

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