Pyramica (Smithistruma) hensekta (Bolton)

Type location Ghana (Smithistruma hensekta sp. n., Bolton, 1983: 293, illustrated, full-face view, worker), collected at Mampong by P. M. Room, 9.ii.1970; holotype worker and 4 paratype workers - see below .

Bolton's description (1983) is at .

WORKER - TL 2.0-2.1 mm; distinguished by the transverse clypeal margin, head broad and short; colour uniform dull yellow.

Other Ghana records from CRIG (D. Leston) and Mampong (P. M. Room). Since described as widespread (58 workers from 9 sites) in their leaf litter samples in the semi-deciduous forest zone by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

Also from Ivory Coast at Divo (L. Brader); Cameroun, near Yaoundé (G. Terron); Gabon and Angola (Bolton, 1983).

The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102546.

The photomontage of a worker from Kenya is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0178309.