Hypoponera male Congo Sud

Type location Congo collected by Yves Braet, male only known.

The photomontage is of a specimen from Congo, Dzio-Dzio, Ngabe, Région de Pool; 3°29'33" S 15°18'33" E; 7 October 2007; collected by sweep netting (fauchage); Yves Braet. Other images can be seen in the folder at - . TL ca 3.2 mm; uniform brown, ocelli large. The colour and gaster pilosity resembles Hypoponera inaudax, which is from the Congo Basin, but the large size suggests perhaps not (H. abellei has a male that is smaller than the worker).

The photomontage of the above male compared with the Emery (1911d) male of Hypoponera eduardi. Forel (1874) had the latter as TL 2.7 mm, pygidium not apically pointed; weakly shiny but whole body covered with dense puncturation and abiundant pubescence; few erect hairs except at apex of gaster; brown to blackish on the dorsum of the head and gaster; ocelli size not mentioned.  The Congo specimen has covering of sparse decumbent hairs on most of the gaster.

See also the photomontage of the male of Hypoponera abeillei (Santschi, 1921e). TL 1.8-1.9 mm; brownish black, appendages, greyish yellow - true Hypoponera - ocelli as large as the interval separating them