Heteroponera
Mayr, 1887
valid
feminine
- Heteroponera in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 43.
- Heteroponera in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
- Heteroponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1911e: 35; Forel, 1917: 236; all subsequent authors to the following.
- Heteroponera in Heteroponerinae, Heteroponerini: Bolton, 2003: 47, 177.
- Heteroponera as subgenus of Acanthoponera: Forel, 1917: 236.
- Heteroponera as junior synonym of Acanthoponera: Emery, 1895l: 767; Emery, 1911e: 35; Wheeler, 1922: 643; Wheeler, 1923f: 179.
- Heteroponera as genus: Brown, 1952h: 70; Kusnezov, 1956a: 13; Brown, 1958g: 194; all subsequent authors.
- Heteroponera as senior synonym of Anacanthoponera: Brown, 1952k: 70; Brown, 1958g: 194.
- Heteroponera as senior synonym of Paranomopone: Brown, 1957k: 112; Brown, 1958g: 194.
- Heteroponera in Ectatomminae, Heteroponerini: Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 675; Camacho et al., 2022: 14.
Junior synonyms
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Anacanthoponera
Wheeler, 1923
Obsolete classification(s): Heteroponera (Anacanthoponera), Acanthoponera (Anacanthoponera)
- Paranomopone Wheeler, 1915
Genus Heteroponera references
Dalla Torre, 1893: 43 (catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 35 (diagnosis, catalogue as part of Acanthoponera); Wheeler, 1923f: 190 (all species key as part of Acanthoponera); Brown, 1958g: 194, 196 (review of genus, Australia-New Zealand species key, New World species key); Brown, 1958h: 17 (New Zealand species); Kempf, 1962a: 31 (Neotropical species key); Kempf, 1972b: 117 (Neotropical catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 30 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 28 (Australia, New Zealand checklist); Fernández, 1993: 250 (Colombia species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 212 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 186 (Australia synopsis); Arias-Penna & Fernández, 2008: 113 (Neotropical species key); Heterick, 2009: 142 (south-western Australia species key); Taylor, 2011: 118 (Australia groups and Heteroponera leae group species key); Taylor, 2015b: 151 (Australasian Heteroponera relicta group revision, species key); Cantone, 2017: 176 (brief male diagnosis); Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 676 (Colombia species key); Camacho et al., 2022: 14 (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. 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
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1952h. Revision of the ant genus Serrastruma. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 107:67-86. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1952k. Heteroponera Mayr reinstated (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 59:70. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1957k. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Alfaria, Gnamptogenys, Heteroponera, Opisthoscyphus, Paranomopone, Proceratium and Sysphingta attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 112-118 in: Borgmeier, T. 1957a. Myrmecologische Studien, I. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 29:103-128. 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
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958h. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1:1-50. 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
- 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
- Fernández, F. 1993. Hormigas de Colombia III: los géneros Acanthoponera Mayr, Heteroponera Mayr y Paraponera Fr. Smith (Formicidae: Ponerinae: Ectatommini). Caldasia 17:249-258.
- 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
- Kempf, W. W. 1962a. Retoques à classificação das formigas neotropicais do gênero Heteroponera Mayr (Hym., Formicidae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 15:29-47. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Kusnezov, N. 1956a. Claves para la identificación de las hormigas de la fauna argentina. Idia 104-105:1-56. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1887. Südamerikanische Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 37:511-632. 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. 2011. Australasian ants of the subfamily Heteroponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): (1) General introduction and review of the Heteroponera leae (Wheeler, 1923) species group, with descriptions of two new species. Myrmecological News 15:117-123. PDF
- Taylor, R. W. 2015b. Australasian ants of the subfamily Heteroponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): (2) the species-group of Heteroponera relicta (Wheeler), with descriptions of nine new species and observations on morphology, biogeography and phylogeny of the genus. Zootaxa 3947 (2):151-180. 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.1 PDF
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
- 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: 27 valid species
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