Pachycondyla vidua

Schmith & Shattuck (2014), during their revision of the subfamily Ponerinae, were unable to determine the proper generic placement of this taxon. They left it assigned to Pachycondyla but noted that this placement is undoubtedly incorrect. Exact placement will require detailed examination of relevant material of this taxa.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia.

Nomenclature

 * . Ponera vidua Smith, F. 1857a: 68 (m.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak).
 * Type-material: holotype male (gaster missing).
 * Type-locality: Malaysia: Borneo, Sarawak, “SAR.” (A.R. Wallace).
 * Type-depository: OXUM.
 * Combination in Pachycondyla: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 448;
 * incertae sedis in Pachycondyla: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 155.
 * [Note: generic combination equivocal: certainly not a Pachycondyla; perhaps Pseudoneoponera.]
 * Status as species: Smith, F. 1858b: 89; Smith, F. 1871a: 321; Dalla Torre, 1893: 43; Emery, 1911d: 116; Wheeler, W.M. 1919e: 139; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 448; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 73; Bolton, 1995b: 311; Pfeiffer, et al. 2011: 57.
 * Distribution: Malaysia (Sarawak).

Ponera vidua

Holotype male in (gaster missing). Labelled “SAR” (= Sarawak) and with a Donisthorpe type-label.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Chapman, J. W., and Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327
 * Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
 * Pfeiffer M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58
 * Smith, F. "Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace." Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2 (1857): 42-88.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1919. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147.