Hypoponera eduardi (Forel)

Type location Algeria (Ponera Eduardi n. sp., Forel, 1894d: 15, worker and ergatoid queen; Emery, 1895b: 61, queen & male; Forel, 1904f: 421, male ergatoid) from Oran Province, collector A Forel - see below
junior synonym antipodum (Ponera antipodum, Forel, 1895a: 43, queen (not worker); synonymy Brown, 1958h: 23) from New Zealand - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0907299
all forms described .
Bolton & Fisher (2011: 16) added dideroti to the synonymy.

Forel's (1894d) description is at . Forel's (1894f) description of the ergatomorph male is at .Forel's (1895a) description of antipodum is at . Emery's (1895b) note is at . Forel's (1904f) note on the ergatoid male is at is at and his earlier description of the alate male, erroneously as Ponera punctatissima is at . Bolton & Fisher's (2011) revisionary note is at .

The photomontage of the type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0249874.

Emery (1895b), as Ponera confinis Roger subsp. Eduardi Forel, separated the worker and alate queen from others then known as having the scape reaching the occiput, petiole scale higher and narrower. The male had 13-segmented antennae, the pygidium not prolonged into a spine (unlike Ponera coarctata) and quite grossly puncturate.

The photomontage of a worker from South Africa, Western Cape, is from Bolton & Fisher (2011) and is also on http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0010995.

The drawing of the alate male is from Emery (1911d). Forel (1874) had this as TL 2.7 mm, pygidium not apically pointed; weakly shiny but whole body covered with dense puncturation and abiundant pubescence; brown to blackish on the dorsum of the head and gaster; ocelli size not mentioned.

The photomontage of a male, identified by Bolton and listed in Bolton & Fisher (2011) is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0135263.

The photomontage of a queen, identified by Bolton and listed in Bolton & Fisher (2011) is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0135262

Oxford University Museum specimens

Hypoponera eduardi B Taylor det.

Liberia E Poirier Liabala PF 13

2.iv.2013 Nimba County 07°31’06" N 08°35’34" E

Pitfall trap Secondary forest 473 m asl

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The photomontage is of a worker from Liberia, Liabala; collector E Poiriet (Liabala PF 13).
This specimen appears about 10% larger than those reported by Bolton & Fisher (2011) but it keys out to eduardi

The photomontage is of a worker from Liberia, Liabala; collector E Poiriet (Liabala PF 13).
This specimen appears about 10% larger than those reported by Bolton & Fisher (2011) but it keys out to eduardi and is not that much bigger than the type from Algeria.  I feel it is worth looking at the Antweb images and querying the colour.  By applying colour changes, primarily shifting the magneta/green balance towards green and adjusting the light/dark balance, I got to the output on the lower left. The similarity to the Liberia specimen is obvious and comes closer to the Forel colour as being "Noire; pattes, mandibules et antennes jaune roussatre" i.e. black with rust-yellow appendages".