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Ponera ergatandria
| Ponera ergatandria | |
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| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Hypoponera punctatissima) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Hypoponera |
| Species: | Ponera ergatandria Forel, 1893 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Hypoponera punctatissima.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- ergatandria. Ponera ergatandria Forel, 1893g: 365 (w.q. ergatoid m.) ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES (St Vincent I.).
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated), 1 syntype ergatoid male.
- Type-localities: St Vincent & the Grenadines: St Vincent I., 41a, 41b, 41c, and 41d (H.H. Smith).
- [Note: 41a = Bowwood Valley, nr Kingston, 800 ft, 15.x., 41b = Islet fronting Châteaubelais Bay, 31.v., 41c = Richmond Estate, 31.x., 41d = Villa Estate, south end of island, 14.x.]
- Type-depositories: BMNH, MHNG.
- Combination in Hypoponera: Kempf, 1972a: 122.
- Status as species: Emery, 1896g: 54 (in key); Forel, 1899c: 16; Wheeler, W.M. 1905b: 82, 121; Forel, 1907a: 2; Wheeler, W.M. 1908a: 125; Wheeler, W.M. 1908e: 405; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 561; Emery, 1911d: 92; Wheeler, W.M. 1913b: 481; Wheeler, W.M. 1913d: 239; Santschi, 1914b: 53; Forel, 1914d: 213; Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1914: 13; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 781; Menozzi, 1927c: 267; Menozzi, 1929a: 2; Menozzi & Russo, 1930: 151; Menozzi, 1931b: 261; Weber, 1934a: 23; Smith, M.R. 1936: 425; Wheeler, W.M. 1936b: 195; Smith, M.R. 1937: 825; Wheeler, W.M. 1937c: 59; Wheeler, W.M. 1938: 251; Weber, 1948b: 79; Creighton, 1950a: 48; Smith, M.R. 1951a: 786; Smith, M.R. 1958c: 112; Bernard, 1967: 89 (redescription); Kempf, 1972a: 122; Alayo, 1974: 7 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 214; Seifert, 2013: 198; Borowiec, L. 2014: 82; Lebas, et al. 2016: 404; Seifert, 2018: 149.
- Junior synonym of punctatissima: Taylor, 1968a: 65; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1343; Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 86; Radchenko, 2016: 72; Lubertazzi, 2019: 123.
References
- Lubertazzi, D. 2019. The ants of Hispaniola. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162(2): 59-210.
- Seifert, B. 2013. Hypoponera ergatandria (Forel, 1893) - a cosmopolitan tramp species different from H. punctatissima (Roger, 1859) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Soil Organisms 85, 189-201.
- Smith, M. R. 1936d. Ants of the genus Ponera in America, north of Mexico. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 29: 420-430.
References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics
- Forel A. 1914. Formicides d'Afrique et d'Amérique nouveaux ou peu connus. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 50: 211-288.
- Forel, A.. "Ameisen aus Rhodesia, Kapland usw. (Hym.) gesammelt von Herrn G. Arnold, Dr. H. Brauns und Anderen." Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1913(Suppl.) (1913): 203-225.
- Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004