Tetramorium menkaura (Bolton)
  Type location Ghana (Triglyphothrix
menkaura, Bolton, 1976: 328, illustrated, full-face and lateral
head, lateral alitrunk and pedicel, worker & queen). Found at CRIG,
from a twig in deep cocoa leaf litter (B. Bolton, 7.vi.1970), holotype
worker plus 6 other workers and 2 alate females (Bolton, 1976)
Later
collected (a total of 21 workers) from primary forest at Mankrang
Forest Reserve and Atewa Forest Reserve, secondary forest at CRIG and
under cocoa at Nankasi by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).  .
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 Bolton's description (1976)
is at  .
WORKER - TL 2.3-2.4 mm; short, branched hairs abundant,
trifid
hairs rare or absent but present at least on the alitrunk and pedicel;
without propodeal spines and body mostly unsculptured and smooth;
colour a deep blackish brown everywhere.
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The
photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from