The Ants of Africa
Genus Pyramica Pyramica (Smithistruma) impidora (Bolton)
Pyramica (Smithistruma) impidora (Bolton)
Type location Ivory Coast
(Smithistruma impidora sp. n.,
Bolton, 1983: 294, illustrated, full-face view, worker), collected at
Abidjan, Banco National Park, in a dead trunk, in primary forest, by I.
Löbl, 3.iii.1977); holotype worker and 2 paratype workers - see below .
Bolton's
description (1983) is at .
WORKER - TL
2.1-2.2 mm; flattened head and lacking specialised pilosity, other than
a transverse band of suborbicular hairs between the vertex and
occipital margin; colour uniform light brown.