Baracidris meketra Bolton
 Type
location Nigeria (Bolton, 1981b: 255, illustrated, worker &
queen); from Ile-Ife, collector J.T. Medler, 21.vii.1971;
holotype worker and a paratype. Pictured in Hölldobler &
Wilson (1990, page 100)  .
WORKER - a very small ant, TL 1.8 mm; colour uniform light brown,
appendages lighter; (Bolton, 1981b, illustrated, full-face view, full
body profile, pedicel dorsum). Bolton's description is at
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In Ghana, Bolton (4.ix.1970) found a single worker and a
dealate female in a deep pile of cocoa leaf litter round a large
forest tree at CRIG. Later, specimens were collected from leaf litter
(8 workers) and soil samples (3 workers) in the Ghana semi-deciduous
forest zone (Juaso, cocoa; Esukawkaw Forest Reserve and Bunso, primary
forest; Bunso, Kade and Nkawanda, secondary forest) by Belshaw &
Bolton (1994b).
Also known from Ivory Coast, Banco Forest, Abidjan (W.L.
Brown, i.1963), single worker (Bolton, 1981b).
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