Holcoponera lucida

Nothing is known about the biology of this species.

Identification
Lattke (2004) - There are only two species of Holcoponera with white-tipped antennae: Holcoponera albiclava and H. lucida. H. albiclava, another Solomon Island endemic, is larger (HL > 1.00; WL > 1.50 mm) and has a lower petiolar node and a longitudinally costulate mesonotum and lacks a denticle or lobe on the metacoxa. H. lucida has more globulose eyes than H. albiclava, with relatively larger ommatidia. The mandibles of H. lucida are not as slender as in H. albiclava and the petiolar node of H. lucida is more compressed.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Solomon Islands.

Castes
Queen and male are unknown.

Nomenclature

 * . Wheeleripone lucida Mann, 1919: 285 (w.) SOLOMON IS (Malaita I.).
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * Type-locality: Solomon Is: Malaita I., Auki, 1916 (W.M. Mann).
 * Type-depository: USNM.
 * Combination in Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 228;
 * combination in Holcoponera: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 11; Brown, 1958g: 228; Bolton, 1995b: 209; Lattke, 2004: 65 (redescription); Sarnat, et al. 2013: 69; Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
 * Distribution: Solomon Is.

Lattke (2004) - Antenna bicolored with four apical segments white and the rest ferruginous. Promesonotal suture and metanotal sulcus both impressed as fine transverse lines, rest of mesosomal dorsum smooth. Postpetiolar process forming two contiguous convexities with brief posteromedian carina in ventral view. Metacoxal dorsum armed.

Worker
Lattke (2004) - Metrics. Holotype: HL 0.87, HW 0.68, ML 0.40, SL 0.79, ED 0.07, WL 1.05 mm. CI 0.78, SI 1.16, MI 0.59, OI 0.10. Head with longitudinal strigulae medially and punctate laterally in frontal view; anterior clypeal margin with projecting median convexity. Pronotum with blunt anteroventral denticle in lateral view; promesonotal suture and metanotal sulcus impressed as fine transverse lines; subpetiolar process triangular; postpetiolar process forms two contiguous convexities in ventral view, with brief posteromedian carinae. Mesosoma, petiole, and abdomen smooth. Fore tarsal base with one seta; metacoxal dorsum armed.

Type Material
Lattke (2004) - Holotype worker by monotypy: Solomon Islands, Malaita Island, Auki [Examined].

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Brown W. L., Jr. 1958. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 173-362.
 * Lattke J. E. 2004. A taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the ant genus Gnamptogenys Roger in Southeast Asia and Australasia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). University of California Publications in Entomology 122: 1-266.
 * Mann W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391.
 * Mann William. 1916. The Ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 63(7): 273-391
 * Mann, W.M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College 63: 273-391
 * Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
 * Wheeler, William Morton.1935.Checklist of the Ants of Oceania.Occasional Papers 11(11): 3-56
 * Wilson Edward O. 1959. Adaptive Shift and Dispersal in a Tropical Ant Fauna. Evolution 13(1): 122-144