Brachyponera sennaarensis (Mayr)

Main species page Type location Sudan (Ponera sennaarensis, Mayr, 1862: 721, worker; Santschi, 1910c: 350, queen reported but not described; Forel, 1910c: 245, male reported but not described) collected at Sennar; junior synonym sorghi (Ponera sorghi, Roger, 1863a: 169, worker) from Sudan; all forms known (see Bolton, 1995) .

Note - the workers from Iran shown below are somewhat lighter colour than the type form but the queen appears near identical to one from Mali shown on the Africa pages.

Mayr's (1862) description is at . Roger's (1863a) description of sorghi is at . Arnold (1915: 72) gave a translation, this is at and, male & queen, .

Photomontage of workers from Iran, ZMGU 001 - Fars Province, Lars City, xi.2001, collector Omid Paknia.

Queen Photomontage of a specimen from Iran, ZMGU 128 - Bandar-e-Kangan City, Bushehr Province, ii.2003, collector Omid Paknia.