Calyptomyrmex nummuliticus Santschi

Type location Cameroun (nummulitica, Santschi, 1914d: 353, worker; Bolton, 1981a: 65, queen), collected at Victoria by F. Silvestri in 1913; junior synonym reticulatus (Weber, 1952: 25, illustrated, worker) from Zaïre; worker and queen only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at . Weber's (1952) description of reticulatus is at . Bolton's modern description (1987) is at

Nigeria specimen (as Calyptomyrmex cryptocerus, Taylor, 1979: 63) WORKER. TL 3.02 mm, HL 0.89, HW 0.86, SL 0.34, PW 0.75
Colour brown. Dorsal surfaces entirely covered with orbicular hairs. Propodeum with a pair of teeth over halfway down the steep declivity.
A single specimen from a rotten log, was collected with alate males at the Cocoa research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, by B. Bolton.

In Ghana, collections were from CRIG and Mt. Atewa (D. Leston; B. Bolton), and Mampong (Calyptomyrmex species B was collected from dead wood under cocoa at the Mampong Cemetery farm by Room, 1971). Since a total of 11 workers was collected from leaf litter under primary and secondary forest (Kade, Atewa Forest Reserve) and cocoa (Asiakwa, Bunso) by Belshaw & Bolton (1994b).

Also from Ivory Coast, at Sangrobo (W.L. & D.E. Brown) and Divo (L. Brader) (Bolton, 1981a).

The photomontage is of a specimen (damaged) from Ghana, collected by S Sky Stephens, 2006. Other images can be seen in the folder at -