Hagensia saldanhae Arnold new
status
  Type location South
Africa (Hagensia peringueyi r saldanhae, Arnold,
1951: 53, illustrated, worker; in Pachycondyla
Bolton, 1995: 309; revived placement by Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 111) - no type images on Antweb (June 2014)
worker only described (see Bolton,
1995)  .
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 Arnold's (1951) revisionary study, including the
description of saldanhae, is at  .
The elevation of P. saldanhae from the status
of a variety of peringueyi, seems justified, especially with
the collection of a second specimen from a different location. The
combination of a flatter alitrunk profile, weak shallow fovea on the
mandibles, stronger punctures on the inner surface of the mandibles,
with coarser teeth, and, the more rectangular, straight sided head
matches the description by Arnold (1951). Presumably he held back from
giving the single specimen species status simply because of the
uniqueness of the specimen.
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photomontage is collated from