Hypoponera Santschi

Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68 : 38

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21008

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6268162

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scientific name

Hypoponera Santschi
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Genus Hypoponera Santschi View in CoL   HNS

This is a cosmopolitan genus of small predacious ants, nesting in soil and rotten wood. Four species are known from California, of which one ( Hypoponera   HNS sp. CA-01) is apparently undescribed and not included in the keys cited below. It is similar to Hypoponera opacior (Forel)   HNS from which it can be distinguished by the orange-brown body color (usually dark brown in California H. opacior   HNS ), narrower head (CI 0.77-0.83, as opposed to 0.83-0.87 in H. opacior   HNS ), and conspicuous standing pilosity on the venter of the head (such pilosity sparse in California populations of H. opacior   HNS ).

Species identification: keys in Creighton (1950a), Wheeler and Wheeler (1986g) and Mackay and Mackay (2002). Additional references: Delabie and Blard (2002), Duffield et al. (1976), Foitzik et al. (2002), Taylor (1967a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

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