Ponera coarctata (Latreille)
Type-species for the genus (Formica coarctata, Latreille, 1802b:
65, illustrated, worker and queen). Type location Luxembourg (?
see below) no type images on Antweb (March 2019)
Junior synonyms
contracta (Latreille, 1802c: 195, illustrated,
worker & queen) from Luxembourg
atlantis (Santschi, 1921e: 166, illustrated, worker)
from Tunisia - see below
crassisquama (Emery, 1916a: illustrated, worker)
from Italy
lucida (Emery, 1898c: 130, worker) from Turkestan
- see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0903905
unavailable names
colchica (Arnol'di, 1932b: 63, worker) from Caucasus
taurica (Arnol'di, 1932b: 65, worker) from Russia;
(see Bolton, 1995).
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Smith (1858b) provided an illustrated description; this is at  . Roger (1860) also provided a description;
this is at  . Bondroit (1918) provided an illustrated
description; this is at  . Santschi's (1921e)
illustrated description of atlantis is at  . Taylor (1967a: 21) provided an
illustrated modern description; this is at  .
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  WORKER
- TL in range 2.5-3.0 mm; head black or rust-red, matte; vertex convex;
antennal scape not reaching the vertex of the head; mandibles with 3
long anterior teeth, plus 12-15 shorter teeth; eye set well forward of
head mid-length, with 3-5 facets. In profile propodeum with declivity
and dorsum of similar length. Petiole scale thick, height less than
three times the width (after Bernard, 1952).
Wheeler (1922) gave the type collection details as
France - "Jardin de Luxembourg, près de Gentilly", Latreille. The
typical species distribution was Southern Europe (northward to Paris),
the Mediterranean subregion and Caucasus. Subspecies listed were boerorum
(from Natal and Tanzania), aemula (from Kibosho, Mt.
Kilimanjaro, Tanzania) and natalensis (from Natal); all workers
only.
Bolton (1995) has aemula as a variety of Hypoponera
dulcis; boerorum was raised to full species by Santschi
(1937), now Hypoponera boerorum; and natalensis as
raised to full species by Santschi (1938b), now Hypoponera
natalensis.
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 The photomontage of the atlantis type is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=CASENT0915294.
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