Pyramica (Smithistruma) minkara (Bolton)

Type location Ivory Coast (Smithistruma minkara sp. n., Bolton, 1983: 306, illustrated, full-face view, worker & queen), collected at Monogaga by V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret, 24.x.1980; holotype and 11 paratype workers. .

Bolton's description (1983) is at .

WORKER - TL 2.4-2.6 mm; separable by its very long narrow head and relatively long scapes; colour medium brown.

V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret also found it, 21 workers and 3 females, at Tai Forest. Other findings were at Sassandra (I. Löbl) and Banco Forest (W.L. Brown). Later, collected in Ghana from leaf litter (55 workers) under cocoa at Ofinso, and under secondary forest at Kade, Atewa Forest Reserve and Bunso, in the semi-deciduous forest zone, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102549.