Pseudoneoponera excavata

Pseudoneoponera excavata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Pseudoneoponera
Species:	P. excavata
Binomial name
Pseudoneoponera excavata (Emery, 1893) Specimen Labels
Subspecies
Pseudoneoponera excavata acuticostata Forel, 1900

Distribution

Latitudinal Distribution Pattern

Latitudinal Range: -23° to -23°.

North Temperate	North Subtropical	Tropical	South Subtropical	South Temperate

• Source: AntMaps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Australasian Region: Australia (type locality).

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.

Castes

Images from AntWeb

Syntype of Bothroponera excavata. Worker. Specimen code casent0903890. Photographer Will Ericson, 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.

• excavata. Bothroponera excavata Emery, 1893e: 201 (in text) (w.) AUSTRALIA (no state data).
  • Type-material: holotype worker.
  • Type-locality: Australia: (no further data).
  • Type-depository: MSNG.
  • Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1901a: 45;
  • combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 305;
  • combination in Pseudoneoponera: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 135.
  • Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 77; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 21; Taylor, 1987a: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 305.
  • Distribution: Australia.
  • Current subspecies: nominal plus acuticostata.

Type Material

• Bothroponera excavata Emery, 1893: Holotype, worker, Australia, Australia, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genoa.

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 305, Combination in Pachycondyla)
• Emery, C. 1893g. Formicides de l'Archipel Malais. Rev. Suisse Zool. 1: 187-229 (page 201, worker described)
• Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 45: 32-54 (page 45, Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera))
• 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).
• Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 21, Combination in Bothroponera)