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

Pyramica (Smithistruma) enkara (Bolton)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Ivory Coast (Smithistruma enkara sp. n., Bolton, 1983: 301, illustrated, full-face view, worker), found in the Banco Forest, in a dead trunk in primary forest, by I. Löbl, 3.iii.1977; holotype worker and one paratype worker - see below .


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

WORKER - TL 2.4 mm; separable from minkara by having a shorter head and scapes; colour dark brown, gaster blackish-brown.

Other specimens from Ghana, at CRIG (D. Leston; C.A. Collingwood); Ivory Coast, at Lamto (W.H. Gotwald); and Cameroun, near Yaoundé (G. Terron).

Later collected in Ghana from leaf litter in the semi-deciduous forest zone (7 workers), under primary forest at Sui Forest Reserve and secondary forest at Bunso, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).


{Pyramica (Smithistruma) enkara}The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102543.

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