Oligomyrmex (Aeromyrma) hewitti Santschi - revived status

Major - Minor - Type location South Africa (Oligomyrmex (Aeromyrma) Hewitti n. sp., Santschi, 1919a: 341, illustrated, major & minor; synonymy Arnold, 1926: 236) Grahamstown, Cape Province, Hewitt - see below
Major & minor described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1919a) description is at . Arnold (1926: 236) gave a translation of the major and synonymized hewitti with semilaevis, this is at and followed the thinking of Emery (1915c: 59). From the type images that clearly was wrong and hewitti strongly resembles Oligomyrmex debilis in form and sculpturation of both major and minor workers.

The photomontage is of the type major worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0913520

The shape and proportions closely match those of Santschi's (1919a) drawing.

The photomontage is of the type minor worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=0913521