Hypoponera petri (Forel)
  Type location Zaïre (Ponera
ergatandria For. r. Petri, new stirps, Forel, 1916: 397,
worker; listed by Wheeler, 1922, raised to species by Santschi, 1938b:
78) collected at Saint Gabriel, by H Kohl; new combination in Hypoponera
(in Bolton, 1995);
worker only described  .
Bolton & Fisher (2011: 87) place it as a junior
synonym of Hypoponera
punctatissima.
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Forel's (1916) description is at  .
WORKER - TL 2.9 mm; eye of 5-6 facets; clypeus with
feebly rounded anterior margin, and a longer carina than lea, elongated by a ridge; propodeum
angle more rounded than lea; petiole scale narrow and high;
colour clear brown (after Bernard, 1952).
Bernard (1952) noted it in his key as from Lake Victoria
(East Africa) but without any details.
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