Lioponera noctambula Santschi

  Type location Tunisia (Lioponera noctambula Santschi, 1910d: 70, male, status revived by Borowiec, 2016); male only known - see below.
junior synonyms (new here)
cooperi (Lioponera cooperi, Donisthorpe, 1939a: 256, male; unnecessary replacement name Cerapachys aegypticus Brown, 1975: 22, rename only (not spelt aegyptiacus, no other information on p 63; synonymy Bolton, 1995: 142) from Egypt - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0902740
alfierii (Lioponera alfierii, Donisthorpe, 1939a: 256, male; new synonymy Bolton, 1995: 142) from Egypt - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0902739

Santschi's (1910d) description is at
Donisthorpe's (1939a) descriptions of alfierii and cooperi are at .

Egypt record as above.

I have placed the workers shown below as the previously unreported workers of noctambulus because the general colouration and shape of the pedicel segments appear very similar.

The Donisthorpe males are almost identical to the noctambulus type male and the Bolton (1995) synonymy under Lioponera longitarsus is changed.

The photomontage of the type male is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0911262

The photomontage is of a worker from Senegal, Doyene-KS; collector Lamine Diamé (66). Note: these both have 11-segmented antennae, as does the Yemen worker shown below. The TL is ca. 4.0 mm, HL 0.77, HW 0.62, SL 0.44, EL 0.30; CI 82, SI 60, EI  (EL/HL) 39.

The workers of Lioponera longitarsus have 12-segmented antennae and, although sharing similar morphology and colouration are some 25% smaller. They also have smaller eyes, shorter erect pilosity and a relatively small near circular postpetiole when seen from above.

The photomontage is of a worker from Senegal,  Thiés; collector Lamine Diamé (67).

The photomontage of a worker from Yemen, is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0249497