Tetramorium distinctum (Bolton)
  Type location Ghana (Triglyphothrix
distincta sp. n., Bolton, 1976: 323, not illustrated, worker &
queen;
name corrected by Bolton, 1995)
Holotype worker collected from deep
forest leaf litter at CRIG by Bolton (31.viii.1970), with 3 paratype
workers; also found at Mampong, 4 workers plus 1 queen (P.M. Room,
26.i.1970) (Bolton, 1976). Described as widespread in leaf litter (552
workers plus 16 from soil samples, at 16 sites) by Belshaw & Bolton
(1994b)  .
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Bolton's description (1976) is at  .
WORKER - TL 1.7-1.9 mm; distinguished by its colour -
the
head, pedicel and gaster are black, and the alitrunk and appendages are
yellow; on first gastral tergite all hairs simple or at most one or two
bifid hairs basally .
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The
photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from