Hypoponera abeillei (André)

Type location Corsica (Ponera abeillei, from Ajaccio, André, 1881a: 61, worker; Santschi, 1921e: 167, illustrated, male), combination in P. (Hypoponera) by Santschi, 1938b; in Hypoponera by Taylor, 1967)
Worker and male described (see Bolton, 1995).
Known from the Mediterranean region and Cameroun (Bernard, 1952); no details given but latter may be from Santschi (1914d) and, thus may be Hypoponera cammerunensis .

André's (1881a) description is at . Bondroit (1918) gave an illustrated description, this is at . Santschi's (1921e) illustrated description of the male is at .

Syntypes were examined by Seifert (2003b), who confirmed this as a good species.

WORKER - TL 2.3-2.5 mm; petiole scale thick, not narrowing towards the apex; mandibles with 4 large teeth and 7-12 denticles (after Bernard, 1952).

Collingwood (1985), reporting it from Saudi Arabia, noted that this small yellowish brown species is characterised by the flat outline of the alitrunk dorsum which has only a very slight metanotal impression.

Bolton & Fisher's consideration can be found in http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2011/2843.html

They noted: In the Afrotropical key abeillei runs out with Hypoponera meridia, a South African species. Superficially the two are similar, but they are easily distinguished by the characters mentioned in the key.

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0915488

The photomontage is collated from http://www.hormigas.org/xEspecies/Hypoponera%20abeillei.htm