Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Author
Bolton, B.
Author
Fisher, B. L.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2843
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http://antbase.org/ants/publications/23490/23490.pdf
journal article
23490
Hypoponera
tristis Bolton & Fisher
sp. n.
(Figs 124
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126)
WORKER (holotype in parentheses). Measurements: HL 0.67
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0.79 (0.79), HW 0.54
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0.60 (0.59), HS 0.615
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0.695 (0.690), SL 0.46
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0.56 (0.55), PrW 0.42
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0.46 (0.46), WL 0.95
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1.08 (1.03), HFL 0.48
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0.58 (0.58), PeNL 0.21
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0.24 (0.22), PeH 0.44
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0.49 (0.48), PeNW 0.34
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0.38 (0.36), PeS 0.340
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0.367 (0.353) (10 measured). Indices: CI 75
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80 (75), SI 88
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93 (93), PeNI 77
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85 (78), LPeI 46
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50 (46), DPeI 152
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170 (164).
Answers the description of
segnis
in all respects except for relative size of petiole. In
segnis
the petiole node is absolutely and relatively shorter in profile, PeNL 0.17
-
0.20 and LPeI 35
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43, and is distinctly broader in dorsal view, with DPeI 180
-
211.
Holotype worker (top specimen of three on pin), Rwanda: Kayove, 2100 m., 15.v.1973 (P. W e r n e r) (MHNG). Paratypes. 8 workers with same data as holotype (MHNG, BMNH, CASC). See comment under
segnis
and notes under
dema
.
Non-paratypic material examined. Uganda: Kibale For. Res. (M.R. Orr); Kalinzu N.P., Musanga For. (M. Kiyono); Kalinzu For., Bushenyi Distr. (S. Yamane). Rwanda: Kayove (P. W e r n e r); Rangiro (P. W e r n e r).