Cryptopone ochracea

Notes on the biology of this rarely encountered species are provided by Purkart & Repta (2022).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Saudi Arabia. Palaearctic Region: Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey.

Nomenclature

 * . Ponera ochracea Mayr, 1855: 390 (footnote) (q.) ITALY.
 * Type-material: holotype queen.
 * Type-locality: none specified.
 * [Note: type-locality Italy (“Kirchenstaat”), after text in Mayr, 1855: 289.]
 * Type-depository: MNHU?
 * [Misspelled as choracea by Ceballos, 1956: 295.]
 * Emery, 1869b: 12 (w.); André, 1882c: 243 (m.).
 * Combination in Pachycondyla (Pseudoponera): Emery, 1901a: 46;
 * combination in Euponera (Pseudoponera): Emery, 1909c: 364;
 * combination in Euponera (Trachymesopus): Emery, 1911d: 86;
 * combination in Trachymesopus: Kempf, 1960f: 424;
 * combination in Cryptopone: Brown, 1963: 6.
 * Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 83; Roger, 1860: 285; Mayr, 1861: 55; Roger, 1863b: 16; Mayr, 1863: 449; Emery, 1869b: 12; Dours, 1873: 167; Emery, 1878b: 49; Mayr, 1879: 663 (in key); Emery & Forel, 1879: 455; André, 1882c: 241 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 40; Emery, 1895b: 61; Forel, 1895d: 229; Ruzsky, 1905b: 758; Emery, 1909c: 364; Santschi, 1910e: 649; Emery, 1911d: 86; Emery, 1916b: 105; Bondroit, 1918: 81; Müller, 1921: 48; Menozzi, 1922b: 324; Müller, 1923b: 24; Menozzi, 1925d: 24; Vandel, 1926: 196; Karavaiev, 1927a: 282; Arnol’di, 1932b: 52; Grandi, 1935: 98; Menozzi, 1936d: 269; Bernard, 1950a: 2; Consani & Zangheri, 1952: 39; Ceballos, 1956: 295; Pisarski, 1967: 377; Bernard, 1967: 83 (redescription); Kutter, 1968a: 59; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 54; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 13; Kutter, 1977c: 28; Collingwood, 1978: 75 (in key); Arnol’di & Dlussky, 1978: 524 (in key); Collingwood, 1985: 239; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 52; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 264 (in key); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990: 174; Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990c: 434; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 67; Mei, 1992a: 414; Bolton, 1995b: 166; Poldi, et al. 1995: 2; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 310; Espadaler, 1997b: 32; Csösz, 2003: 153; Bračko, 2006: 134; Markó, Sipos, et al. 2006: 69; Petrov, 2006: 83 (in key); Bračko, 2007: 17; Vonshak, et al. 2009: 45; Werner & Wiezik, 2007: 144; Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008: 144; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 498; Lapeva-Gjonova, et al. 2010: 5; Csösz, et al. 2011: 56; Legakis, 2011: 3; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 491; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 29; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2013: 352; Borowiec, L. 2014: 70 (see note in bibliography); Lebas, et al. 2016: 402; Radchenko, 2016: 73; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 44; Seifert, 2018: 147.
 * Distribution: Bulgaria, Croatia, France (+ Corsica), Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy (+ Sardinia, Sicily), Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Spain (+ Balearics), Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus sicula.

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