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Pyramica (Smithistruma) tigrilla (Brown)

Pyramica (Smithistruma) tigrilla (Brown)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} 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) .


{Pyramica (Smithistruma) tigrilla}Brown's (1973a) description is at {original description}. Bolton's modern description (1983), as Smithistruma tigrilla, is at {original description}.

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).


Pyramica tigrillaThe photomontage of a paratype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0900069

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