Hypoponera lotti (Weber)
  Type location South Sudan
(Ponera
lotti, sp. nov., Weber, 1942: 45, illustrated, worker) collected in
Lotti Forest by the author - no images on Antweb (January 2015); (new
combination in Hypoponera
Bolton, 1995)  .
Bolton & Fisher (2011: 43) place it as a junior
synonym of Hypoponera
dulcis.
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 Weber's
(1942a) description is at  .
WORKER (in part after Bernard, 1952) - TL 2.6 mm; colour
brown; antennal scape surpassing the vertex of the head; eye of one
facet, close to the mandibles, which have only feeble teeth. Clypeus
margin with an obtuse central tooth; propodeum profile similar to that
of Hypoponera
dulcis.
Despite including it in his key to West African species,
Bernard (1952) simply has "Soudan" as the location.
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Oxford University Museum
specimens
Hypoponera lotti
B Taylor det.
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Congo
Y Braet
t-1-6
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19.viii.2007
Brazzaville
4° 15' 33" S
15° 17' 5" E
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24h pitfall trap;
forest around the GERDIB laboratories; 317 m asl
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2
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 The photomontage is of a worker from Congo,
Brazzaville; collectors
Yves Braet &
Eric Zassi.
Bolton & Fisher (2011: 46) have: "there is some
variation in the material examined that may suggest the presence of a
second species
within this group. In some darkly coloured specimens from Cameroun and
Gabon (in BMNH and CASC), the mesonotum in profile is distinctly
convex, whereas in all other material it is more or less flat. The
degree of convexity varies and is sometimes difficult to assess as
specimens
in which the pronotum is fully flexed down with respect to the
mesonotum appear more convex than those in which the two sclerites
are aligned, because more of the curved anterior articulatory surface
of the mesonotum is exposed. Coupled with this, the dorsum of the first
gastral tergite in these workers where the mesonotum is more convex has
conspicuous setae [hairs], whereas in the vast majority of specimens
the setae on the first tergite are sparse and minute, and sometimes
appear to be
absent." They appear to ignore what was written by Weber (1942a)
and Bernard (1952).
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 The
photomontage is of a second worker from Congo, Brazzaville;
collectors Yves Braet &
Eric Zassi.
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