Hypoponera ragusai (Emery)
 Type location Sicily
(Ponera Ragusai n. sp., Emery, 1894h: 28, worker, also Emery,
1895b:
65; name changed by Emery, 1911, to ragusae; Santschi, 1907:
313, queen & ergatogyne queen, also ergatomorph male, the alate
male unknown; listed in
Wheeler, 1922) collected by Enrico Ragusa - see below
subspecies
santschii (Ponera
ragusai Emery, var. santschii
n., Emery, 1909c: 371,
illustrated, worker & queen) from Algeria - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0903907
junior synonym
massiliensis (Bondroit, 1920a: 158, replacement
name for Ponera parva
n. sp., Bondroit, 1918: 85; and its synonym gyptis
Santschi, 1921b: 435) from France - no images on Antweb (January 2015),
(combination in Hypoponera,
Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 18, see Bolton, 1995) .
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 Emery's
(1894h) description is at  Santschi's (1907)
description of the queen
and ergatomorph male are at  and  . Emery's (1909c) illustrated description
of the type and santschii is at  - from Algeria, Tunisia and Syria. Santschi's (1914b) description of sordida
is at  . Bondroit's (1918)
description of parva is at  .
Given by Bernard (1952) as from the "Old World". Wheeler
(1922; from Emery, 1911d: 91) listed it also from Egypt (Cairo, Borcard) and Tanzania.
Bolton & Fisher (2011) report Egypt "Cairo, Pyramids (W. Wittmer); Sinai, Wadi Feran (W. Wittmer)".
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The
photomontage is of the holotype worker; collated from 
The
photomontage is of a specimen from Israel, courtesy of
Armin Ionescu, Tel Aviv University. 
The photomontage is of
a queen from Israel,
courtesy of Armin Ionescu, Tel Aviv University.