Pyramica (Epitritus) laticeps (Brown)
  Type location Nigeria
(Epitritus laticeps sp. nov., Brown, 1962b: 77, illustrated,
full-face
view and head and alitrunk profile; Bolton, 1971b, 1983, illustrated
full-face view) - see below  .
Holotype and 6 paratype workers from Nigeria, near
Zungeru on
the Kaduna Road (W.A. Sands, 19.xii.1956), at the base of a dead tree,
a northern savannah location (Brown 1962, illustrated); listed in
Bolton (1983, 1995).
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WORKER - TL 1.7-2.2 mm. Distinguished by a long
spiniform
tooth in the apical mandibular armament; notably strongly swollen and
humped mesonotum; colour medium-brown; worker only described.
Collected in Ghana, from leaf litter (a total of
27
workers) in the semi-deciduous forest zone (Southern Scarp Forest
Reserve, secondary forest; Kade, forest and cocoa; Esukawkaw Forest
Reserve, primary forest; and Bunso, cocoa) (Belshaw & Bolton,
1994b).
Known also from Ivory Coast, at Banco Forest (I.
Lobl);
Adiopodoumé, Bingerville, Gregbeu (V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret);
and Cameroun, near Yaoundé (G. Terron).
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The photomontage of the holotype is collated from