Pyramica (Smithistruma) tigrilla (Brown)
  Type location Ivory Coast
(Miccostruma tigrilla n. sp., Brown, 1973a: 32, illustrated,
full
profile and full-face view, worker), collected near Divo, from a
Berlese funnel extract from rain forest litter by L. Brader,
18.iii.1963; holotype worker only (paratype shown below)  .
|
 Brown's (1973a)
description is at  .
Bolton's modern description (1983), as Smithistruma tigrilla, is at  .
WORKER - TL 2.0-2.2 mm; 4-segmented antennae; very
distinctive
conspicuous black and yellow pattern - mandibles, clypeus and antennae
yellow - rest of head black - pronotum, mesonotum and forelegs yellow -
propodeum, pleurae, middle and hind coxae black middle and hind femora
dusky, remainder of legs yellow - petiole and postpetiole black - basal
gaster yellow - rest of gaster black; also lack of dorsal pilosity
(Bolton, 1983: 284, not illustrated).
Other Ivory Coast material was a single paratype
from
Banco Forest Reserve, also a Berlese funnel extract from rain forest
leaf litter (W.L. Brown, i.1963); listed also from Cameroun, at
Korup Reserve (D.A. Jackson) (Bolton, 1983).
Collected in Ghana from leaf litter (9 workers)
under
primary forest at Mankrang Forest Reserve, Kade and Atewa Forest
Reserve in the semi-deciduous forest zone, by Belshaw & Bolton
(1994b).
|
The photomontage of a paratype worker is
collated from