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

Pyramica (Smithistruma) mekaha (Bolton)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Cameroun (Smithistruma mekaha sp. n., Bolton, 1983: 305, not illustrated, worker), collected near Yaoundé by G. Terron; holotype worker and 1 paratype worker only (Bolton, 1983) .

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

WORKER - TL 2.6 mm; separable by the distinctive arched hairs on dorsum of head which bend forward to touch the surface; colour brown.

{Pyramica (Smithistruma) mekaha}The photomontage of a paratype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0900087.
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