Holcoponera pittieri

Hypogeic leaf litter (including bamboo) dweller of cloud forests of the Venezuelan Cordillera de la Costa.

Identification
A member of the strigata complex (in the strigata subgroup of the striatula species group). Sculpture with rough aspect; frontal lobes each with a median emargination; eyes protuberant and subglobular; propodeal spiracles rnounted at the apex of protuberances. A series from near Tejerias differs from the type series in having the notch on the frontal lobes shallower, the propodeal spiracles on higher turrets, finer costulae on the anterior postpetiolar face and metacoxal spines more acute. (Lattke 1995)

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Venezuela.

Nomenclature

 * . Gnamptogenys pittieri Lattke, 1990b: 18, fig. 11 (w.q.) VENEZUELA.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, 1 paratype worker, 1 paratype queen.
 * Type-locality: holotype Venezuela: Estado Aragua, Parque Nacional Henri Pittier, Rancho Grande, 10°21’N, 67°41’W, 1400 m., 20.x.1981 (C. Bordón); paratypes with same data.
 * Type-depositories: MIZA (holotype); MIZA, MZSP (paratypes).
 * Combination in Holcoponera: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
 * Status as species: Brandão, 1991: 345; Bolton, 1995b: 210; Lattke, 1995: 179; Lattke, et al. 2007: 259 (in key); Camacho, et al. 2020: 456 (in key); Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
 * Distribution: Ecuador, Venezuela.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Fernández, F. and S. Sendoya. 2004. Lista de las hormigas neotropicales. Biota Colombiana Volume 5, Number 1.