Hypoponera cammerunensis (Santschi)

Type location Cameroun (Ponera abeillei var. cammerunensis, Santschi, 1914d: 321, worker) from Victoria, collector F. Silvestri, in 1913, 3 workers; worker only described (in Hypoponera and raised to species by Taylor, 1967; see Bolton, 1995) .

Santschi's (1914d) description is at .

Nigeria specimens (Taylor, 1976: 21). WORKER. TL 1.99 mm, HL 0.47, HW 0.39, SL 0.34, PW 0.28
Colour yellow-brown, shiny with relatively dense pilosity. Eyes absent.
Occasionally collected at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, Idi Ayunre, from soil in crevices of a cocoa tree (with H. lea), also nests in dead wood on the ground.

Probably this species, as Hypoponera near camerunensis, also found in Ghana in open ground under Lantana tangle; and from leaf litter and nesting in dead wood on the ground under cocoa at the Mampong Cemetery farm (Room, 1971).

The photomontage is of a specimen from Gabon, Pongara National Park, 8.viii.2006, Winkler Funnel, riverine leaf litter; collected by Yves Braet [gaster missing]. Other images can be seen in the folder at -