Hypoponera pruinosa

Hypoponera pruinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Hypoponera
Species:	H. pruinosa
Binomial name
Hypoponera pruinosa (Emery, 1900) Specimen Labels
Synonyms
Ponera mocsaryi Emery, 1900

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Micronesian Ants

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: 7.42° to -10.75°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Micronesia (Federated States of), New Guinea (type locality), Northern Mariana Islands, Philippines, Solomon Islands.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

Check data from AntWeb

Countries Occupied

Number of countries occupied by this species based on AntWiki Regional Taxon Lists. In general, fewer countries occupied indicates a narrower range, while more countries indicates a more widespread species.

Estimated Abundance

Relative abundance based on number of AntMaps records per species (this species within the purple bar). Fewer records (to the left) indicates a less abundant/encountered species while more records (to the right) indicates more abundant/encountered species.

Castes

.	Owned by Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Images from AntWeb

Queen (alate/dealate). Specimen code casent0178373. Photographer Erin Prado, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by AMNH, New York, NY, USA.

Worker. Specimen code casent0178374. Photographer Erin Prado, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by AMNH, New York, NY, USA.

Worker. Specimen code casent0178375. Photographer Erin Prado, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by AMNH, New York, NY, USA.

Not Provided. Worker. Specimen code casent0186203. Photographer Eli M. Sarnat, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by EMSC.

Worker. Specimen code casent0199841. Photographer Estella Ortega, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by EMSC, Eli M. Sarnat Collection.

Worker. Specimen code casent0260435. Photographer Shannon Hartman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by PSWC, Philip S. Ward Collection.

Syntype of Hypoponera pruinosa. Worker. Specimen code casent0903910. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Syntype of Ponera mocsaryi. Worker. Specimen code casent0903912. Photographer Z. Lieberman, uploaded by California Academy of Sciences.	Owned by MSNG, Genoa, Italy.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• pruinosa. Ponera pruinosa Emery, 1900c: 319, pl. 8, figs. 13, 14 (w.) NEW GUINEA. Viehmeyer, 1916b: 284 (q.m.); Imai, Brown, et al. 1984: 67 (k.). Combination in Hypoponera: Imai, Brown et al. 1984: 67. Senior synonym of mocsaryi: Wilson, 1958d: 335. See also: Mann, 1919: 294.

Description

Karyotype

• n = 12, 2n = 24 (Indonesia; Malaysia; Sarawak) (Imai et al., 1983; Imai et al., 1985; Mariano et al., 2015).

References

• Baltazar, C.R. 1966. A catalogue of Philippine Hymenoptera (with a bibliography, 1758-1963). Pacific Insects Monographs 8: 1-488. (page 247, listed)
• Clouse, R. M. 2007. The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Micronesia. Micronesica. 39(2): 171–296.
• Dash, S.T. 2011. A taxonomic revision of the New World Hypoponera Santschi, 1938 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ph.D. thesis, University of Texas, El Paso.
• Dash, S.T., Mackay, W.P. 2019. Capitulo 18. Genero Hypoponera. Hormigas de Colombia.
• Emery, C. 1900b. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetr. Füz. 23: 310-338 (page 319, pl. 8, figs. 13, 14 worker described)
• Imai, H. T.; Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kubota, M.; Yong, H.-S.; Tho, Y. P. 1984. Chromosome observations on tropical ants from western Malaysia. II. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 34: 66-69 (page 67, Combination in Hypoponera)
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• Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63: 273-391 (page 294, see also)
• Mariano, C.S.F., Santos, I.S., Silva, J.G., Costa, M.A., Pompolo, S.G. 2015. Citogenética e evolução do cariótipo em formigas poneromorfas. In: Delabie, J.H.C., Feitosa, R.M., Serrao, J.E., Mariano, C.S.F., Majer, J.D. (eds) As formigas poneromorfas do Brasil, 1st edn. Ilhéus, Brasil, pp 102–125 (doi:10.7476/9788574554419.0010).
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References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

• CSIRO Collection
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• Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
• Field Museum Collection, Chicago, Illinois (C. Moreau)
• Imai H. T., M. Kubota, W. L. Brown, Jr., M. Ihara, M. Tohari, and R. I. Pranata. 1985. Chromosome observations on tropical ants from Indonesia. Annu. Rep. Natl. Inst. Genet. Jpn. 35: 46-48.
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