Parvaponera darwinii madecassa

Parvaponera darwinii madecassa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Parvaponera
Species:	P. darwinii
Subspecies:	P. darwinii madecassa
Trinomial name
	Parvaponera darwinii madecassa; (Emery, 1899) Specimen labels

Identification

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Malagasy Region: Madagascar (type locality).

Distribution based on AntMaps

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Estimated Abundance

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Biology

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Nomenclature

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

madecassa. Belonopelta darwini var. madecassa Emery, 1899f: 268 (q.) MADAGASCAR.
- Type-material: holotype queen.
- Type-locality: Madagascar: (no further data).
- Type-depository: MSNG.
- Combination in Pachycondyla (Pseudoponera): Emery, 1901a: 46;
- combination in Euponera (Trachymesopus): Emery, 1911d: 86;
- combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 307;
- combination in Parvaponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 200.
- Subspecies of darwinii: Emery, 1911d: 86; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 1009; Bolton, 1995b: 307.
- Distribution: Madgascar.

Description

References

Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla attributed to Brown.] Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 307, Combination in Pachycondyla)
Emery, C. 1899e. Formiche di Madagascar raccolte dal Sig. A. Mocquerys nei pressi della Baia di Antongil (1897-1898). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 31: 263-290 (page 268, queen described)
Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 45: 32-54 (page 46, Combination in Pachycondyla (Pseudoponera))
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125 (page 86, Combination in Euponera (Trachymesopus))
Esteves, F.A., Fisher, B.L. 2021. Corrieopone nouragues gen. nov., sp. nov., a new Ponerinae from French Guiana (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1074, 83–173 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1074.75551).
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).
Wheeler, W. M. 1922k. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 4 45: 1005-1055 (see also)