Holcoponera relicta

Sifted from leaf litter in rain forests.

Identification
A member of the haytiana complex (in the strigata subgroup of the striatula species group). 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.

Key to New World Gnamptogenys Species

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

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.