Hypoponera cammerunensis (Santschi)

Type location Cameroun (Ponera Abeillei Er. André, var. cammerunensis nov. var., 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 . Bolton & Fisher's re-description can be found in http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2011/2843.html

Nigeria specimens (Taylor, 1976: 21). WORKER. 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.
Occasionally collected at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, from soil in crevices of a cocoa tree (with H. lea), also nests in dead wood on the ground. Specimens deposited in BMNH.

Inexplicably not listed by Bolton & Fisher (2011: 34).

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).

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent2017335.

Oxford University Museum specimens

Hypoponera cammerunensis B Taylor det.

Gabon Y Braet Gabon 148

8.viii.2006 Pongara 00°34' N 09°19' E

Riverine leaf litter; 72 h winkler funnel

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The photomontage is of a specimen from Gabon, Pongara National Park; collector Yves Braet (Gabon 148) [gaster missing]. Appears to be a closer match to the type worker than the example shown below.

The photomontage is from Bolton & Fisher (2011) and is also on http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent2017335.