Hypoponera tristis Bolton & Fisher, 2011

Bolton, B. & Fisher, B. L., 2011, Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 2843, pp. 1-118 : 110

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23490

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6191134

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scientific name

Hypoponera tristis Bolton & Fisher
status

sp. n.

Hypoponera tristis Bolton & Fisher   HNS sp. n.

(Figs 124 – 126)

WORKER (holotype in parentheses). Measurements: HL 0.67 – 0.79 (0.79), HW 0.54 – 0.60 (0.59), HS 0.615 – 0.695 (0.690), SL 0.46 – 0.56 (0.55), PrW 0.42 – 0.46 (0.46), WL 0.95 – 1.08 (1.03), HFL 0.48 – 0.58 (0.58), PeNL 0.21 – 0.24 (0.22), PeH 0.44 – 0.49 (0.48), PeNW 0.34 – 0.38 (0.36), PeS 0.340 – 0.367 (0.353) (10 measured). Indices: CI 75 – 80 (75), SI 88 – 93 (93), PeNI 77 – 85 (78), LPeI 46 – 50 (46), DPeI 152 – 170 (164).

Answers the description of segnis   HNS in all respects except for relative size of petiole. In segnis   HNS the petiole node is absolutely and relatively shorter in profile, PeNL 0.17 – 0.20 and LPeI 35 – 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   HNS and notes under dema   HNS .

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Hypoponera

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