Pachycondyla (Xiphopelta) elisae (Forel)

Type location Madagascar (Ponera elisae, Forel, 1891b: 221, illustrated, worker); subspecies divaricata (Emery, 1915g: 6, illustrated, worker) from Eritrea (Ethiopia in Bolton, 1995), redbankensis (Forel, 1913a: 109, worker) from Zimbabwe, and rotundata (Emery, 1895h: 20, worker; Arnold, 1915: 71, queen; stirps of elisae, Santschi, 1937d: 217; senior synonym of arnoldi, Forel, 1913a: 108, worker, from Zimbabwe, synonymy by Wheeler, 1922: 776); worker and queen only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1891b) description is at . Forel's (1913a) description of arnoldi, with what he defined as a new subgenus Xiphopelta, is at . Emery's (1915g) description of divaricata is at . Arnold (1915: 71) gave a translation, this is at . Emery (1895h) simply noted that rotundata differed from the type in having a shorter metanotum (propodeum) with a purely rounded profile.

The photomontage is collated from http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=CASENT0101033