Pyramica (Epitritus) roomi (Bolton)

Type location Ghana (Epitritus roomi sp. n., Bolton, 1971b: 206, illustrated, worker & queen) - see below .

Bolton's description is at .

WORKER - TL 1.9 mm; has five funicular segments, and two elongate flattened hairs from each mandibular blade; colour medium brown (Bolton, 1971b, 1983 illustrated full-face view).

The holotype worker and a paratype female, plus a later worker, described by Bolton were collected from cocoa leaf litter and on open ground under Lanthanus at the Mampong Cemetery farm in Ghana (P.M. Room, 10.iv.1970; in Room, 1971). Also described as widespread in their collections from leaf litter (53 workers plus 16 from soil samples at 12 sites) in the semi-deciduous forest zone by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

Now known also from Cameroun, near Yaoundé (G. Terron); and Ivory Coast, Issoneu (V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret).

The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0900044.