Cryptopone fusciceps

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea, Solomon Islands.

Nomenclature

 * . Cryptopone fusciceps Emery, 1900c: 321, pl. 8, figs. 19, 20 (w.q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen.
 * Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Lemien (L. Biró).
 * Type-depositories: HNHM, MSNG.
 * [Misspelled as fuscipes by Emery, 1911d: 88, Chapman & Capco, 1951: 53.]
 * Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 88; Mann, 1919: 294 (in key); Wheeler, W.M. 1933g: 7; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 53; Wilson, 1958d: 358; Bolton, 1995b: 166; Sarnat, et al. 2013: 73.
 * Senior synonym of fuscior: Wilson, 1958d: 358; Bolton, 1995b: 166.
 * Senior synonym of minor: Wilson, 1958d: 358; Bolton, 1995b: 166.
 * Distribution: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Is.
 * fuscior. Cryptopone mayri var. fuscior Mann, 1919: 294 (w.) SOLOMON IS (Isabel I.).
 * Type-material: 2 syntype workers.
 * Type-locality: Solomon Is: Ysabel I., Fulakora (W.M. Mann).
 * Type-depository: MCZC.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1933g: 8; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 12.
 * Junior synonym of fusciceps: Wilson, 1958d: 358; Bolton, 1995b: 166.
 * minor. Cryptopone mayri var. minor Mann, 1919: 294 (diagnosis in key) (w.) SOLOMON IS.
 * Type-material: holotype(?) worker.
 * [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
 * Type-locality: Solomons (no further data).
 * Type-depository: none specified (probably MCZC).
 * Junior synonym of fusciceps: Wilson, 1958d: 358; Bolton, 1995b: 166.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * CSIRO Collection
 * Emery C. 1900. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetrajzi Füzetek 23: 310-338.
 * Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
 * Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
 * Lucky A., L. E. Alonso, E. Sarnat, and J. Hulr. 2015. Ants and scolytine beetles. In: Richards, S.J. and N. Whitmore (editors) 2015. A rapid biodiversity assessment of Papua New Guinea's Hindenburg Wall region. Wildlife Conservation Society Papua New Guinea Program. Goroka, PNG.
 * Mann W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391.
 * Mann, W.M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College 63: 273-391
 * Snelling R. R. 2000. Ants of the Wapoga river area, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. In Mack, Andrew L. and Leeanne E. Alonso (eds.). 2000. A Biological Assessment of the Wapoga River Area of Northwestern Irian Jaya, Indonesia. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 14, Conservation International, Washington, DC.
 * Viehmeyer H. 1912. Ameisen aus Deutsch Neuguinea gesammelt von Dr. O. Schlaginhaufen. Nebst einem Verzeichnisse der papuanischen Arten. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 14: 1-26.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1933. Three obscure genera of ponerine ants. American Museum Novitates 672: 1-23.
 * Wheeler W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
 * Wheeler, William Morton.1935.Checklist of the Ants of Oceania.Occasional Papers 11(11): 3-56
 * Wilson E. O. 1958. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia III. Rhytidoponera in western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119: 303-371.
 * Wilson Edward O. 1959. Adaptive Shift and Dispersal in a Tropical Ant Fauna. Evolution 13(1): 122-144