Heteroponera brounii

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: New Zealand.

Nomenclature

 * . Ectatomma (Acanthoponera) brownii Forel, 1892c: 335 (w.) NEW ZEALAND.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: New Zealand: Auckland, Drury (T. Broun).
 * [Note: Broun misspelled as Brown in original description.]
 * Type-depository: CMNZ, MHNG, NHMB.
 * [Justified emendation of spelling to brounii: Forel, 1905a: 353, Wheeler, W.M. 1923e: 184.]
 * Combination in Acanthoponera: Forel, 1905a: 353;
 * combination in Acanthoponera (Anacanthoponera): Wheeler, W.M. 1923e: 183;
 * combination in Heteroponera: Brown, in Borgmeier, 1957: 112.
 * Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 23; Forel, 1905a: 353; Emery, 1911d: 36; Wheeler, W.M. 1923e: 183; Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 10; Brown, 1958g: 195, 262; Brown, 1958h: 17; Wilson & Taylor, 1967: 102; Taylor, 1987a: 29; Bolton, 1995b: 212; Don, 2007: 60.
 * Senior synonym of kirki: Brown, 1958g: 195; Brown, 1958h: 18; Taylor, 1987a: 29; Bolton, 1995b: 212.
 * Distribution: New Zealand.
 * kirki. Acanthoponera (Anacanthoponera) brouni subsp. kirki Wheeler, W.M. 1923e: 184, fig. 4 (w. ergatoid q.) NEW ZEALAND.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”), 1 syntype ergatoid queen.
 * Type-locality: New Zealand: Waitakari Forest, nr Auckland, 5.ix.1914 (W.M. Wheeler).
 * Type-depository: MCZC.
 * Subspecies of brounii: Wheeler, W.M. 1935g: 10.
 * Junior synonym of brounii: Brown, 1958g: 195; Brown, 1958h: 18; Taylor, 1987a: 29; Bolton, 1995b: 212.

Acanthoponera brouni kirki type material

Three syntype workers from Auckland, New Zealand, 5 Sept. 1914, W.M. Wheeler (, reported by Palma et al., 1989).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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 * Brown WL. 1958. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1.1: 1-50.
 * Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1:1-50.
 * Cumber RA. Distributional and biological notes on sixteen North Island species of Formicidae. 10-14.
 * Cumber, R. A. 1959. Distributional and biological notes on sixteen North Island species of Formicidae (Hymenoptera). New Zealand Entomologist 2(4):10-14.
 * Cumber, R.A. 1959. Distributional and biological notes on sixteen North Island species of Formicidae (Hymenoptera)
 * Don AW. Ants from the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand. 1994. New Zealand Entomologist 17:22-29.
 * Don, A. W. 1994. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist 17:22-29.
 * Emery C. 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125.
 * Forel A. 1905. A revision of the species of the Formicidae (ants) of New Zealand. Trans. Proc. N. Z. Inst. 37: 353-355.
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 * Wheeler W. M. 1923. Ants of the genera Myopias and Acanthoponera. Psyche (Cambridge) 30: 175-192.
 * Wheeler WM. 1927. Ants of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 62.4: 120-153.
 * Wheeler WM. 1935. Checklist of the ants of Oceania. Bernice P Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 11.11 pg 3-56
 * Wheeler, W. M. 1927. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 62: 121-153
 * Wilson EO, Taylor RW. 1967. The ants of Polynesia. Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109.