Pyramica (Smithistruma) sharra (Bolton)

Type location Ivory Coast (Smithistruma sharra sp. n., Bolton, 1983: 295, illustrated, full-face view, worker & queen), collected at Issoneu by V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret, 12.x.1980; holotype worker, 14 paratype workers and one queen .

Bolton's description (1983) is at .

WORKER - TL 2.0-2.2 mm; very dense suborbicular pilosity all over head dorsum; colour medium to dark brown.

Other Ivory Coast collections (all by V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret) include at Man, Droplieu and Tai Forest.

Ghana records include at CRIG (D. Leston) and Mampong (P.M. Room) (Bolton, 1983). Later, collected in Ghana from leaf litter (25 workers) under primary forest at Mankrang Forest Reserve, Kade and Atewa Forest Reserve, and cocoa at Ofinso, in the semi-deciduous forest zone, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

Also known from Cameroun, at Nko'emvon (D.A. Jackson) and near Yaoundé (G. Terron); and from Angola (Bolton, 1983).

The photomontage of the holotype is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102555.