Hypoponera natalensis (Santschi)
  Type location South
Africa (Ponera coarctata Latr. stirps natalensis n.
st., Santschi, 1914e: 7, worker; raised to species Santschi, 1938b:
79)
Worker only described (in Hypoponera, Taylor,
1967a: 12;
see Bolton, 1995)  .
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Santschi's (1914e) description is at  . Arnold (1926: 208) gave a translation,
this is at  .
WORKER - TL 2.7 mm; head rectangular; shorter mandibles
& longer scapes almost reaching occiput; eye of single facet;
the frontal sillon or groove reaching the middle
of the head; testaceous red with a brown spot on front of head;
mandibles, antennae,
legs and apex of gaster yellowish. Without any comment on the Santschi
description, Bolton
& Fisher gave the colour as
"yellowish-brown to light
brown", and, the eyes as vestigial to absent.
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Bolton & Fisher's re-description can be found
in http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2011/2843.html
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 The photomontage of the
type worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0915201.
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 The photomontage of a worker from South Africa, Kwazulu, Natal,
is from Bolton
&
Fisher (2011) and is also on http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0218489.
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