Hypoponera imatongica (Weber)
Type location South Sudan
(Ponera
coarctata (Latr.) , imatongica ssp. nov., Weber, 1942a: 44,
illustrated, worker; combination in Hypoponera and raised to
species by Taylor, 1967a: 12) from Imatong Mountains, collected by the
author; no images on Antweb (January 2015)
see Bolton, 1995) .
Bolton & Fisher (2011: 15, 62) regard this as a
junior synonym of Hypoponera
jeanneli.
They make a surprising and disparaging remark that Weber's description
was inadequate, without referring to his drawing, and state that
without the type material this taxon would be "utterly unidentifiable".
I choose to sustain the species
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