Pachycondyla (Bothroponera) pongarensis Taylor new species

Type location Gabon .

WORKER DESCRIPTION:  petiolar node with sharp anterior and posterior margins in dorsal view, dorsum almost flat; head, thorax, petiole and postpetiole coarsely punctate, this puncturation never confluent, coarsest and most widely separated on the petiole dorsum; mandibles striate; red-brown

TL ca 5.6 mm, HW 1.3, HL 1.4, CI 89, SL 0.9, SI 85, PW 0.95

Immediately separable from all described members of subgenus Bothroponera by being about half the size of the smallest of the related species.

Name derived from collection location.

Specimen deposited in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Photomontage of specimens from Gabon, Pongara National Park; Winkler Funnel of leaf litter; 27.vi-10.vii.2006; collected by Yves Braet. Other images can be seen in the folder at -