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Holcoponera
For a list of taxa which share this name see Holcoponera (disambiguation).
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Ectatommini |
| Genus: | Holcoponera Mayr, 1887 |
| Type species | |
| Gnamptogenys striatula, now Holcoponera striatula
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Identification
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Keys including this Genus
Distribution
Distribution and Richness based on AntMaps
Species by Region
Number of species within biogeographic regions, along with the total number of species for each region.
| Afrotropical Region | Australasian Region | Indo-Australian Region | Malagasy Region | Nearctic Region | Neotropical Region | Oriental Region | Palaearctic Region | |
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| Species | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 0 |
| Total Species | 2841 | 1736 | 3045 | 932 | 835 | 4379 | 1741 | 2862 |
Biology
Castes
Morphology
Phylogeny
| Ectatomminae |
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See Phylogeny of Ectatomminae for details.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- HOLCOPONERA [Ectatomminae: Ectatommini]
- Holcoponera Mayr, 1887: 540 [as subgenus of Ectatomma]. Type-species: Gnamptogenys striatula Mayr, 1884: 32, by subsequent designation of Emery, 1911d: 40, Wheeler, W.M. 1911f: 165.
- [Note: publication date of Emery, 1911d, is 9.ix.1911; of Wheeler, W.M. 1911f, is 17.x.1911.]
Taxonomic history
- Holcoponera in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 23.
- Holcoponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905b: 382.
- Holcoponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895j: 767; Emery, 1911d: 40; Forel, 1917: 236; Gallardo, 1918b: 21; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 643; subsequent authors.
- Holcoponera in Ectatomminae, Ectatommini: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
- Holcoponera as subgenus of Ectatomma: Mayr, 1887: 540; Dalla Torre, 1893: 23; Emery, 1895j: 767; Forel, 1895b: 113; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 135.
- Holcoponera as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 211; Kempf, 1972a: 111; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1337; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 31; Bolton, 2003: 174.
- Holcoponera as genus: Emery, 1896g: 43; Emery, 1902a: 181; Ashmead, 1905b: 382; Emery, 1911d: 40; Wheeler, W.M. 1913a: 79; Forel, 1917: 236; Gallardo, 1918b: 21; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 643; Borgmeier, 1923: 55; Santschi, 1929h: 437; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 651; Brown, 1956: 489; Kusnezov, 1956: 14; Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
- Holcoponera as senior synonym of Mictoponera: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
- Holcoponera as senior synonym of Rhopalopone: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
- Holcoponera as senior synonym of Spaniopone: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
- Holcoponera as senior synonym of Wheeleripone: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
- Holcoponera references: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11 (diagnosis).
- [Note: for references pre-2022 see under Gnamptogenys.]
References
- Camacho, G.P., Franco, W., Branstetter, M.G., Pie, M.R., Longino, J.T., Schultz, T.R., Feitosa, R.M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among Ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(1): 5; 1–20 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixab026).
- Mayr, G. 1887. Südamerikanische Formiciden. Verh. K-K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 37: 511-632 (page 542, queen, male described; page 541, Combination in Ectatomma (Holcoponera))