The Ants of Africa
Genus Hypoponera
Hypoponera cammerunensis (Santschi)
{Hypoponera cammerunensis}

Hypoponera cammerunensis (Santschi)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Cameroun (Ponera abeillei var. cammerunensis, Santschi, 1914d: 321, worker) from Victoria, collector F. Silvestri, in 1913, 3 workers; worker only described (in Hypoponera and raised to species by Taylor, 1967; see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at {original description}.

WORKER (from Nigeria) - TL 1.99 mm, HL 0.47, HW 0.39, SL 0.34, PW 0.28
Colour yellow-brown, shiny with relatively dense pilosity. Eyes absent.

In Nigeria occasionally collected from soil in crevices of a cocoa tree (with H. lea), also nests in dead wood on the ground.

Probably this species, as Hypoponera near camerunensis, also found in Ghana in open ground under Lantana tangle; and from leaf litter and nesting in dead wood on the ground under cocoa at the Mampong Cemetery farm (Room, 1971).

{Hypoponera cammerunensis}The photomontage is of a specimen from Gabon, Pongara National Park, 8.viii.2006, Winkler Funnel, riverine leaf litter; collected by Yves Braet [gaster missing]. Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

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