Ponera spiniventris

Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum : 92

34. Ponera spiniventris , B.M.

Male. Length 6 1/2 lines.-Black: with flavo-hyaline wings, the nervures rufo-piceous. Head much narrower than the thorax; the antennae setaceous, longer than the thorax; head and thorax both covered with a thin downy pubescence; the calcaria and claw-joint of the tarsi testaceous. Abdomen elongate, longer than the head and thorax, the apical margins of the segments constricted; the basal segment with a short blunt tooth or spine at the base beneath; the node of the peduncle incrassate, obtuse above, and, as well as the abdomen, covered with a short downy pubescence.

Hab. Sierra Leone. (Coll. Rev. D. F. Morgan.)

In all probability this is the male of P. pestilentia .