The Ants of Africa
Genus Strumigenys Strumigenys spathoda Bolton
Strumigenys spathoda Bolton
Type location Togo
(Bolton, 1983: 393, illustrated, full-face view, worker), collected at
Palimé, Klouto Forest, by Vit, 20-25.iv.1974; holotype worker and 5
paratype workers .
Bolton's description (1983)
is at .
WORKER - TL 2.0-2.1 mm; with short mandibles but no
large expansion of anterior scape margins; colour medium-brown.
Also known from Ivory Coast, Man (V. Mahnert
& J.-L. Perret); Cameroun, near Yaoundé (G. Terron) (Bolton,
1983).
A single worker was found in Ghana, from a leaf
litter sample under secondary forest at Bunso in the semi-deciduous
forest zone by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).