Typhlomyrmex reichenspergeri

Rarely collected, known from leaf-litter samples of humid forests.

Identification
A member of the haytiana complex (in the strigata subgroup of the striatula species group). Head in frontal view with concave vertexal margin, vertex smooth and shining; anterior face of postpetiole and median disc of gastric tergum II smooth and shining; metacoxal spine absent and declivitous face of propodeum with small superolateral lobes, spiracles lateral and not elevated; metanotal suture absent. Nearest relative is apparently Gnamptogenys relicta. (Lattke 1995)

Key to New World Gnamptogenys Species

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil.

Nomenclature

 *  reichenspergeri. Acanthoponera (Anacanthoponera) reichenspergeri Santschi, 1929d: 274 (w.) BRAZIL. Combination in Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 229. See also: Lattke, 1995: 181.