Rhytidoponera
Mayr, 1862
valid
feminine
Rhytidoponera
Mayr, 1862:
731
[as subgenus of Ectatomma]
Type-species:
Ponera araneoides (obsolete combination of Rhytidoponera araneoides), by subsequent designation of Emery, 1911e: 37.
- [Type-species not Rhytidoponera metallica, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1911g: 172; see Emery, 1912d: 271 and Wheeler, 1913a: 79.]
- Rhytidoponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
- Rhytidoponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Emery, 1911e: 26; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 643; all subsequent authors to the following.
- Rhytidoponera in Ectatomminae, Ectatommini: Bolton, 2003: 46, 175; Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 659.
- Rhytidoponera as junior synonym of Ectatomma: Roger, 1863b: 17.
- Rhytidoponera as subgenus of Ectatomma: Mayr, 1862: 731; Mayr, 1863a: 453; Mayr, 1887: 539; Dalla Torre, 1893: 23; Emery, 1895l: 767; Wheeler, 1910a: 135.
- Rhytidoponera as genus: Emery, 1897: 547; Emery, 1911e: 36; Wheeler, 1913a: 79; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 643; all subsequent authors.
Junior synonyms
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Chalcoponera
Emery, 1897
Obsolete classification(s): Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera)
Obsolete classifications
Genus Rhytidoponera references
Mayr, 1867a: 88 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1876: 90 (Australia species key); Mayr, 1887: 539 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 36 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1912a: 77 (Rhytidoponera metallica group revision, key); Clark, 1936: 16 (Australia species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 25, 27 (Asia Chalcoponera, Rhytidoponera checklists); Brown, 1954g: 2 (Rhytidoponera impressa & Rhytidoponera metallica groups, species); Brown, 1958g: 197, 288 (review of genus, New Caledonia species key); Wilson, 1958g: 304 (Melanesia & Moluccas species key); Ward, 1980a: 478 (Australia & New Guinea Rhytidoponera impressa group, key); Ward, 1984: 135 (New Caledonia species key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 40 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 67 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklist); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 378 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 204 (Australia synopsis); Heterick, 2009: 137 (south-western Australia species key); Boudinot, 2015: 56 (male identification); Cantone, 2017: 145 (brief male diagnosis)
Citations
- Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Boudinot, B. E. 2015. Contributions to the knowledge of Formicidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata): a new diagnosis of the family, the first global male-based key to subfamilies, and a treatment of early branching lineages. European Journal of Taxonomy 120:1-62. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1954g. Systematic and other notes on some of the smaller species of the ant genus Rhytidoponera Mayr. Breviora 33:1-11. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. PDF
- Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
- Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
- Clark, J. 1936. A revision of Australian species of Rhytidoponera Mayr (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 9:14-89. PDF
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778. PDF
- Emery, C. 1897. Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia orientale. XVIII. Formiche raccolte nella Nuova Guinea dal Dott. Lamberto Loria. Dummy reference. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 38[=(2)18]:546-594.
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
- Emery, C. 1912a. Revision der Rhytidoponera (subg. Chalcoponera) der metallica-Gruppe. (Hym.-Formic.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1912:77-81. PDF
- Emery, C. 1912d. Les espèces-type des genres et sous-genres de la famille des Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56:271-273. PDF
- Feitosa, R. M.; Prada-Achiardi, F. C. 2019. Subfamilia Ectatomminae. Capítulo 22. Pp. 659-679 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
- Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1867a. Adnotationes in monographiam formicidarum Indo-Neerlandicarum. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 10:33-117. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy 12:56-115. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1887. Südamerikanische Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 37:511-632. PDF
- Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
- Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp.
- Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
- Ward, P. S. 1980a. A systematic revision of the Rhytidoponera impressa group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia and New Guinea. Australian Journal of Zoology 28:475-498. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 1984. A revision of the ant genus Rhytidoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in New Caledonia. Australian Journal of Zoology 32:131-175. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1911g. A list of the type species of the genera and subgenera of Formicidae. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 21:157-175. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1913a. Corrections and additions to "List of type species of the genera and subgenera of Formicidae". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 23:77-83. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
- Wilson, E. O. 1958g. 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. PDF