Wadeura

Wadeura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Wadeura Weber, 1939
Type species
Wadeura guianensis
Diversity
4 species (Species Checklist, Species by Country) Specimen Label

Identification

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  Branstetter & Longino (2022), Fig. 7. Shape of third abdominal sternite, Cryptopone vs. Wadeura. Cryptopone gilvagrande (CASENT064143), lateral view (A), oblique ventral view (B). Wadeura guianensis (CASENT0640149), lateral view (C), oblique ventral view (D). Scale bars are 0.2 mm.

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Keys to Species in this Genus

• Key to Wadeura workers

Distribution

Species by Region

Number of species within biogeographic regions, along with the total number of species for each region.

	Afrotropical Region	Australasian Region	Indo-Australian Region	Malagasy Region	Nearctic Region	Neotropical Region	Oriental Region	Palaearctic Region
Species	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0
Total Species	2851	1736	3047	932	840	4391	1767	2925

Phylogeny

Ponerinae

Platythyrea  (40 species, 6 fossil species) Pachycondyla group ⊞(show genera) ⊟ Simopelta  (22 species, 0 fossil species) Belonopelta  (2 species, 0 fossil species) Thaumatomyrmex  (13 species, 0 fossil species) Mayaponera  (7 species, 0 fossil species) Rasopone  (15 species, 0 fossil species) Neoponera  (58 species, 1 fossil species) Dinoponera  (8 species, 0 fossil species) Pachycondyla  (18 species, 19 fossil species) Ponera group ⊞(show genera) ⊟ Diacamma  (67 species, 0 fossil species) Cryptopone  (24 species, 0 fossil species) Ectomomyrmex  (31 species, 0 fossil species) Ponera  (62 species, 5 fossil species) Emeryopone  (5 species, 0 fossil species) Austroponera  (3 species, 1 fossil species) Pseudoponera  (6 species, 0 fossil species) Parvaponera  (7 species, 0 fossil species) Wadeura  (4 species, 0 fossil species) Harpegnathos group ⊞(show genera) ⊟ Harpegnathos  (13 species, 0 fossil species) Hypoponera  (177 species, 1 fossil species) Plectroctena group ⊞(show genera) ⊟ Centromyrmex  (17 species, 0 fossil species) Psalidomyrmex  (6 species, 0 fossil species) Loboponera  (9 species, 0 fossil species) Boloponera  (2 species, 0 fossil species) Plectroctena  (16 species, 0 fossil species) Odontomachus group ⊞(show taxa) ⊟ Asphinctopone  (3 species, 0 fossil species) Anochetus  (115 species, 9 fossil species) Odontomachus  (78 species, 3 fossil species) some Mesoponera Megaponera  (6 species, 0 fossil species) Ophthalmopone  (6 species, 0 fossil species) Brachyponera  (28 species, 0 fossil species) Leptogenys  (334 species, 1 fossil species) Myopias  (48 species, 0 fossil species) Euponera  (27 species, 0 fossil species) Fisheropone  (2 species, 0 fossil species) Hagensia  (6 species, 0 fossil species) Bothroponera  (46 species, 0 fossil species) some Mesoponera Odontoponera  (4 species, 1 fossil species) Phrynoponera  (5 species, 0 fossil species) Streblognathus  (2 species, 0 fossil species) Pseudoneoponera  (29 species, 0 fossil species) Paltothyreus  (7 species, 0 fossil species) Buniapone  (2 species, 0 fossil species) Promyopias  (1 species, 0 fossil species)

See Phylogeny of Ponerinae for details.

Nomenclature

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

• WADEURA [junior synonym of Cryptopone]
  • Wadeura Weber, 1939a: 102. Type-species: Wadeura guianensis, by original designation.
  • Wadeura junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Snelling, R.R. 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, in Bolton, 1994: 164.
  • Wadeura junior synonym of Cryptopone: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 182.

References

• Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 164, Wadeura as junior synonym of Pachycondyla)
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 168, Wadeura as junior synonym of Pachycondyla)
• Branstetter, M.G., Longino, J.T. 2022. UCE phylogenomics of New World Cryptopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) elucidates genus boundaries, species boundaries, and the vicariant history of a temperate–tropical disjunction. Insect Systematics & Diversity 6(1): 6:1-23 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixab031).
• 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, Wadeura as provisional junior synonym of Pachycondyla)
• 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 735, Wadeura in Ponerinae, Ponerini)
• Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 11, Wadeura 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, Wadeura as junior synonym of Pachycondyla)
• Weber, N. A. 1939a. New ants of rare genera and a new genus of ponerine ants. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 32: 91-104 (page 102, Wadeura as genus)