Cryptopone

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Nomenclature

 *  CRYPTOPONE  [Ponerinae: Ponerini]
 * Cryptopone Emery, 1893a: cclxxv. Type-species: Cryptopone testacea, by monotypy.
 * [Cryptopone also described as new by Emery, 1893f: 240. Type-species not Amblyopone testacea, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, W.M. 1911f: 161, repeated in Emery, 1911d: 88, Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 780, Donisthorpe, 1943f: 636, Kempf, 1972a: 90 and Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 28; see discussion in Wilson, 1958d: 360.]
 * Cryptopone junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Mackay & Mackay, 2010: 3.
 * Cryptopone revived from synonymy: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 182.
 * Cryptopone senior synonym of Wadeura: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 182.
 * 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.