Lioponera foreli

Brown (1975) - Species of the longitarsus group (=Lioponera) tend to nest in hollow twigs, beetle burrows, or other channels in wood, branches, or bark, and it is possible that they are all arboreal or subarboreal. Lioponera singaporensis was taken originally nesting in a hollow mango twig. Cerapachys foreli has been taken by Raignier and van Boven in hollow twigs in Zaire (personal communication), and I have found this species climbing a tree trunk in sparse single file in a copse in the Dabou Savanna, Ivory Coast.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Cameroun, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya.

Nomenclature

 *  foreli. Phyracaces foreli Santschi, 1914d: 309 (w.) GHANA.
 * Santschi, 1915c: 245 (q.).
 * Combination in Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 22.
 * Combination in Lioponera: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 163.
 * Status as species: Santschi, 1915c: 245; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 757; Brown, 1975: 22, 60; Bolton, 1995b: 143.
 * Senior synonym of langi: Brown, 1975: 22.
 * Senior synonym of occipitalis: Brown, 1975: 22.
 * Senior synonym of santschii: Brown, 1975: 22.
 * langi. Phyracaces langi Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 54, fig. 4 (w.q.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.
 * Junior synonym of foreli: Brown, 1975: 22.
 * santschii. Phyracaces santschii Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 56 (q.) GABON.
 * Junior synonym of foreli: Brown, 1975: 22.
 * occipitalis. Phyracaces occipitalis Bernard, 1953b: 216, fig. 6 (w.) GUINEA.
 * Junior synonym of foreli: Brown, 1975: 22.