Quadristruma emmae Emery - placed in Strumigenys (Bolton, 2000: 950)
  Type location St. Thomas I.,
Antilles Is. (Epitritus
emmae n. sp., Emery, 1890b: 70, illustrated, worker;
Wheeler, 1908a: 149, queen) - see below
junior synonyms
clypeatus (Epitritus
clypeatus n. sp., Szabó, 1909: 27, illustrated, worker) from New
Guinea - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0909342
malesiana (Epitritus
clypeatus var. malesiana,
Forel, 1913k: 83, worker & queen) from Sumatra http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912831- see
wheeleri
(Epitritus wheeleri,
Donisthorpe, 1916a: 121, worker) from Hawaii - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0249106
synonymy and new genus status by Brown (1949b: 48); worker and queen
described (see Bolton, 1995)  .
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  Emery's (1890b) illustrated description is at  . Szabó's (1909) illustrated description of
clypeatus is at  . Bolton's modern description (1983) is at  .
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 WORKER
- TL 1.7-1.9 mm; colour dull yellow to pale brown (Bolton, 1983,
illustrated full-face view).
Bolton (1973a) noted the single finding in Ghana of
this pantropical tramp species and later reported this as a collection
from Bunso (P.M. Room) (Bolton, 1983). A single worker has since been
collected in Ghana from leaf litter in the semi-deciduous forest zone,
under secondary forest at Nkawanda, by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b). In
Africa otherwise known from Equatorial Guinea, which borders
southern Cameroun.
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 The
photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102082.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Quadristruma emmae
B Taylor det.
Queen
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Ghana
S Sky Stephens
06G0025
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2006
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in personal collection of S Sky
Stephens
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 The photomontage is of
a queen from Ghana,
collected by S Sky Stephens, 2006.
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 The
photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0005894
Collection details - Seychelle Is: Mahé; La Réserve et Brulée;
00°00'00"N 000°00'00"E, 400-500m. Collection Information: Collection
codes: ANTC1249. Date: 24 May 1996. Collected by: Schodl.
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