Holcoponera relicta

Identification
The degree of effacement of sculpture, and size can vary considerably. Mandibles, vertex and anterior petiolar face smooth and shining, occiput sometimes with very faint transverse costulae; last 3 antennal segments form vague club; declivitous propodeal face with transverse costulae, propodeal spiracles elevated above rest of cuticle; pronotal suture present but fine, metanotal suture well impressed, breaking sculpture; no anterolateral lobes on declivitous propodeal face; metacoxal spine present.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Biology
Sifted from leaf litter in rain forests.

Nomenclature

 *  relicta. Rhopalopone relicta Mann, 1916: 403, pl. 1, figs. 4, 5 (w.) BRAZIL. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1964b: 446 (l.). Combination in Holcoponera: Brown, 1956b: 491; in Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 229. See also: Lattke, 1995: 182.