Acanthoponera goeldii subsp. schwarzi, Wheeler, 1923

Wheeler, W. M., 1923, Ants of the genera Myopias and Acanthoponera., Psyche 30, pp. 175-192 : 188-189

Subsp, schwarzi subsp. nov. (Fig. 5.)

Worker. Length 4.5 mm.

Agreeing well with Forel's description of the type but smaller, with the petiolar spine as long as the epinotal spines and apparently directed somewhat more upward. The epinotal spines diverge and their downward deflection is feeble. There is no constriction between the postpetiole and gaster. The color seems to be paler, being brownish yellow, the postpetiole and

Fig 5. Acanthoponera goeldii subsp , schwarzi subsp. nov. Worker, lateral aspecc.

gaster lighter than the head and thorax (darker in the typical goeldii ), as pale as the legs, only the overlapping posterior borders of the segments brown. Judging from the description of goeldii , the sculpture of the head, thorax and petiole is finer and more indistinct and the postpetiole and gaster are not aciculate, but very finely and superficially punctulate. Pubescence on these latter regions conspicuously long. The frontal carinae with their accompanying scrobes extend to the posterior corners of the head and there curve downward and forward to terminate under the eyes, as in the typical goeldii .

Described from a single specimen found running on a cacao tree at Trece Aguas, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala by Messrs. E. A. Schwarz and H. S. Barber.

This may be a distinct species, but as I have seen no specimens of the typical goeldii , with the description of which it agrees in quite a number of characters, it may stand provisionally as a subspecies.