Myrmicaria nigra (Mayr)

Type location South Africa (Heptacondylus niger n. sp., Mayr, 1862: 755, worker, also Mayr, 1865: 110; Arnold, 1916: 270, male, worker illustrated; combination in Myrmicaria, Dalla Torre, 1893: 155) Cape of Good Hope, Novara Expedition
worker & male only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

 Mayr's (1862) description is at . Mayr (1865: 110) gave a fuller description, this is at . Arnold (1916: 267) gave a translation, with expanded description and a description of the male, this is at .

The photomontage of a syntype worker is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0900506.

The male was shown by Emery (1922e-f).