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Termitopone
| Termitopone | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Termitopone Wheeler, W.M., 1936 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera laevigata, now Neoponera laevigata
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Neoponera.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- TERMITOPONE [junior synonym of Neoponera]
- Termitopone Wheeler, W.M. 1936d: 159. Type-species: Ponera laevigata, by original designation.
- Termitopone senior synonym of Syntermitopone: Borgmeier, 1959a: 312.
- Termitopone junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Snelling, R.R. 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, in Bolton, 1994: 164.
- Termitopone junior synonym of Neoponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 145.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 164, Termitopone as junior synonym of Pachycondyla)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 168, Termitopone as junior synonym of Pachycondyla)
- Borgmeier, T. 1959a. Myrmecologische Studien. II. An. Acad. Bras. Cienc. 31: 309-319 (page 312, Termitopone senior synonym of Syntermitopone)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J., Ayensu, E. S., Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Wash (page 185, Termitopone as junior synonym of Pachycondyla (provisional))
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943h. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [concl.]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 721-737 (page 731, Termitopone in Ponerinae, Ponerini)
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 11, Termitopone as junior synonym of Pachycondyla)
- 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).
- Snelling, R. R. 1981. Systematics of social Hymenoptera. Pp. 369-453 in: Hermann, H. R. (ed.) Social insects. Volume 2. New York: Academic Press, xiii + 491 pp. (page 389, Termitopone as junior synonym of Pachycondyla)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1936e. Ecological relations of ponerine and other ants to termites. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 71: 159-243 (page 159, Termitopone as genus)