Hypoponera bondroiti

Japanese Name

Tobi-nise-hari-ari

Forel, A. (1911) Ameisen des Herrn Prof. v. Ihering aus Brasilien (Sao Paulo usw.) nebst einigen anderen aus SŸdamerika und Afrika. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1911: 285-312.

Ponera ergatandria subsp. Bondroiti Forel, 1911, Ponera bondroiti Forel: Santschi, 1937, Hypoponera bondroiti (Forel): Onoyama, 1989,

Total length of workers around 2.5 mm. Body color yellow to reddish brown. Scapes not reaching median posterior border of head. Eyes each with 1 - 3 facets, situated at the sides of the head, somewhat separated from posterior margin of clypeus (the distance between anterior margins of eyes and posterior margin of clypeus is 3 - 4 times eye diameter). Petiole narrow, twice as broad as long. Subpetiolar process subtriangular.

H. bondroiti nests in the soil. A rare species. It was cited as "Hypoponera sp. 7" in "A List of the Ants of Japan with Common Japanese Names" (Myrmecological Society of Japan Editorial Committee, 1988).
Nests in the soil. Polygynic and polycalic. Two types of queen are present, winged and apterous. Males are also dimorphic, they may be, large, apterous and dark brown, or small, apterous and yellow.

Hokkaido (shore of Lake Kussharo), Nansei Is (Okinawa I.), Daito Is (Kita-daito I., Minami-daito I.), Ogasawara Is (Chichi-jima I., Nishi-jima I.); Taiwan, Belgium (possibly introduced elsewhere from tropical America).