Mesoponera javana

Mesoponera javana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Mesoponera
Species:	M. javana
Binomial name
Mesoponera javana (Forel, 1905)
Synonyms
Pachycondyla rubra minirubra Özdikmen, 2010

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia (type locality), Singapore.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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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.

Nomenclature

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

• javana. Euponera (Mesoponera) rubra var. javana Forel, 1905c: 6 (q.m.) INDONESIA (Java).
  • Type-material: syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated).
  • Type-locality: Indonesia: Java, Buitenzorg (= Bogor), iii.1904 (K. Kraepelin).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 306;
  • combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 111.
  • Subspecies of rubra: Emery, 1911d: 81; Wheeler, W.M. 1924b: 242; Karavaiev, 1926d: 419; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 306.
  • Status as species: Wang et al., 2022: 128.
  • Senior synonym of minirubra Özdikmen, 2010c: 995 (unnecessary replacement name).
  • Distribution: Indonesia (Java, Sebesi).
• minirubra. Pachycondyla rubra minirubra Özdikmen, 2010c: 995.
  • Unnecessary replacement name for Euponera rubra javana Forel, 1905c: 6.
  • Junior synonym of javana Forel, 1905c: 6 (unpublished).

References

• Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, S.O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817, 1–242 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1).
• Wang, W.Y., Soh, E.J.Y., Yong, G.W.J., Wong, M.K.L., Benoit Guénard, Economo, E.P., Yamane, S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006 (doi:10.20362/am.015006).