Lioponera longitarsus (Mayr)

  Type location India (Lioponera longitarsus, Mayr, 1879: 667, worker & queen; Forel, 1900d: 329, male; see Brown, 1975: 23; status revived by Borowiec, 2016) - see below
junior synonyms
aegyptiacus (Lioponera cooperi, Donisthorpe, 1939a: 256, male; replacement name Cerapachys aegyptiacus Brown, 1975: 22, rename only, no other information on p 63; synonymy Bolton, 1995: 142) from Egypt, Siwa, J Omer-Coooper - see below
alfierii (Lioponera alfierii, Donisthorpe, 1939a: 256, male; new synonymy Bolton, 1995: 142) from Egypt, Wadi Diola, Alfieri - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?name=casent0902739
australis (Lioponera longitarsus Mayr v. australis n. var., Forel, 1895f: 422, worker; synonymy Brown 1975) from Australia, Mackay, Queensland, Gilbert Turner - see  https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0907069
bicolor (Phyracaces bicolor n. sp., Clark, 1924: 77, illustrated, worker & queen; synonymy Brown 1975) from Australia, Western Australia, Armadale, J Clark - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0902756
parva (Lioponera longitarsis Mayr race L. parva nov. stirps, Forel, 1900d: 330, worker & male; synonymy Brown 1975) from India - Calcutta - https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0907070
pygmaeus (Phyracaces pygmaeus sp. nov., Clark, 1934b: 26, illustrated, worker; synonymy Brown 1975) from Australia, north Queensland - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=antweb1008249.

Mayr's (1879) description is at Forel's (1900d) descriptions of the male and parva are at Bingham (1903: 26) gave an illustrated description; this is at Clark's (1924) description of bicolor is at Clark's (1934b) description of pygmaeus is at Donisthorpe's (1939a) descriptions of alfierii and cooperi are at

Egypt records - In the now closed HNS as Lioponera alfierii Donisthorpe and Lioponera cooperi Donisthorpe - cooperi - two males from Siwa, 30.vi.1935 and Maragi Oasis, 30.vi.1935, J Omer Cooper; alfierii - 1 male, Wada Digla, 23.vii.1935, Alfieri; also listed in Donisthorpe (1942a). The photomontage of a non-type worker is collated from http://www.discoverlife.org/

Note: as all available images, other than the two Egyptian sexuals, are of workers, it is not possible to be sure of an association between the Egypt species and the type otherwise not reported from west of India. http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0102474

There is a worker from Israel shown on Antweb (at https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0249297) but that has a quite different shape to the head in full face view to that of australis and pygmaeus. Thus the synonymy by Brown seems open to question.

The finding of workers of what seem likely to be the previously unknown workers of C. noctambulus from Senegal support this.

The photomontage is of the holotype worker collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0915854

The photomontage of the aegyptiacus (cooperi) type male is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902740

The photomontage of the alfierii type male is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0902739