Parvaponera darwinii

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Chad, Ivory Coast, Mali. Australasian Region: Australia. Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea, Solomon Islands. Oriental Region: India. Palaearctic Region: China, Israel, Japan, Malta.

Japan (Nansei Is (Okinawa I., Iriomote I.)).

Nomenclature

 *  darwinii. Belonopelta darwinii Forel, 1893d: 460 (q.) AUSTRALIA. Terayama, 1990: 897 (w.). Combination in Pachycondyla (Pseudoponera): Emery, 1900d: 668; Emery, 1901a: 46; in Pseudoponera: Bingham, 1903: 93; in Euponera (Trachymesopus): Emery, 1911d: 86; in Trachymesopus: Wilson, 1958d: 353; in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 304. Senior synonym of lamarki, rufotestaceus: Brown, 1963: 6. Current subspecies: nominal plus africana, indica, madecassa.
 * lamarki. Euponera (Trachymesopus) lamarki Santschi, 1913c: 303 (q.) CONGO. Junior synonym of darwinii: Brown, 1963: 6.
 * rufotestaceus. Cryptopone rufotestaceus Donisthorpe, 1943b: 197 (q.) INDIA. Combination in Trachymesopus: Wilson, 1958d: 361 (footnote). Junior synonym of darwinii: Brown, 1963: 6.

Additional References

 * 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)