Acanthoponera
Mayr, 1862
valid
feminine
Acanthoponera
Mayr, 1862:
732
[as subgenus of Ectatomma]
Type-species:
Ponera mucronata (obsolete combination of Acanthoponera mucronata), by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g: 158.
- Acanthoponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
- Acanthoponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Emery, 1911e: 35; Forel, 1917: 236; Gallardo, 1918c: 16; Wheeler, 1922: 643; all subsequent authors to the following.
- Acanthoponera in Heteroponerinae, Heteroponerini: Bolton, 2003: 47, 177.
- Acanthoponera as subgenus of Ectatomma: Mayr, 1862: 732; Roger, 1863b: 17; Mayr, 1863a: 394; Mayr, 1887: 540; Dalla Torre, 1893: 23; Wheeler, 1910a: 135.
- Acanthoponera as genus: Emery, 1895h: 346; Emery, 1911e: 35; Forel, 1917: 236; Gallardo, 1918c: 16; Wheeler, 1923f: 179; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 619; Kusnezov, 1956a: 13; Brown, 1958g: 188; all subsequent authors.
- Acanthoponera in Ectatomminae, Heteroponerini: Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 673; Camacho et al., 2022: 13.
Obsolete classifications
Genus Acanthoponera references
Mayr, 1887: 540 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 35 (diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1923f: 190 (all species key); Brown, 1958g: 188 (review of genus & species); Kempf, 1972b: 9 (catalogue); Kugler, 1991: 155 (sting structure); Bolton, 1995b: 53 (catalogue); Arias-Penna & Fernández, 2008: 111 (all species key); Boudinot, 2015: 51 (male identification); Cantone, 2017: 175 (brief male diagnosis); Camacho et al., 2022: 13 (female diagnosis).
Citations
- Arias-Penna, T. M.; Fernández, F. 2008. Subfamilia Heteroponerinae. Pp. 109-117 in: Jiménez, E.; Fernández, F.; Arias, T.M.; Lozano-Zambrano, F. H. (eds.) 2008. Sistemática, biogeografía y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia. Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, xiv + 609 pp. PDF
- 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. 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. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. PDF
- Camacho, G. P.; Franco, W.; Branstetter, M. G.; Pie, M. R.; Longino, J. T.; Schultz, T. R.; Feitosa, R. M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): a new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1): 5:1-20. 10.1093/isd/ixab026 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
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:617-688.
- Emery, C. 1895h. Descriptions de quelques fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:345-358. 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. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. 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
- Gallardo, A. 1918c. Las hormigas de la República Argentina. Subfamilia Ponerinas. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 30:1-112. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Kugler, C. 1991. Stings of ants of the tribe Ectatommini (Formicidae: Ponerinae). Insecta Mundi 5:153-166. PDF
- Kusnezov, N. 1956a. Claves para la identificación de las hormigas de la fauna argentina. Idia 104-105:1-56. 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. 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
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
- Wheeler, W. M. 1923f. Ants of the genera Myopias and Acanthoponera. Psyche (Cambridge) 30:175-192. PDF
Extant: 4 valid species
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