Pachycondyla (Trachymesopus) aenigmatica (Arnold)

Type location South Africa (Ponera aenigmatica, Arnold, 1949: 265, illustrated, worker), worker only described.

Arnold's (1949) description is at .

TL 3.7 mm; brownish-black, posterior margins of gastral tergites and clypeus brownish-yellow, appendages ferruginous.

The photomontage of a specimen from South Africa, labelled Pachycondyla sharpi, presumably unpublished, is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=CASENT0104897. This matches all the characters described by Arnold (1949).

The photomontage is of a specimen from Gabon, Pongara National Park; that appears to be aenigmatica; Gabon 177; 9.vi-20.vi.2006; Pongara Camp Base; Winkler Funnel, leaf litter; collected by Yves Braet, 2006. Other images can be seen in the folder at -