Amblyopone
Erichson, 1842
valid
feminine
- Amblyopone in Poneridae: Smith, 1858a: 108; Smith, 1871b: 324.
- Amblyopone in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 714 (in key) [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865: 16 [Poneridae]; Emery & Forel, 1879: 455 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 13 [Poneridae]; Emery, 1896e: 176 [Poneridae].
- Amblyopone in Pachycondylinae, Amblyoponini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
- Amblyopone in Ponerinae, Amblyoponini: Emery, 1895d: 261; Emery, 1895l: 766; Emery, 1901b: 34; Wheeler, 1910a: 134; Emery, 1911e: 25; Forel, 1917: 235; Wheeler, 1922: 641; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 621; Brown, 1953c: 11; Kempf, 1972b: 19; Bolton, 1973a: 330; Smith, 1979: 1334; Bolton, 1995b: 19.
- Amblyopone in Amblyoponinae: Forel, 1893b: 162; Clark, 1951: 15 (in key); Bolton, 2003: 42, 154.
- Amblyopone as genus: all authors.
- Amblyopone as senior synonym of Neoamblyopone: Brown, 1949e: 87; Brown, 1960a: 155; Bolton, 1973a: 330; Smith, 1979: 1334; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 19; Tang et al., 1995: 24; Bolton, 2003: 154.
- Amblyopone as senior synonym of Protamblyopone: Brown, 1949e: 87; Brown, 1960a: 155; Bolton, 1973a: 330; Smith, 1979: 1334; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 19; Tang et al., 1995: 24; Bolton, 2003: 154.
- [Amblyopopona: unjustified emendation of spelling by Schulz, 1906: 154.]
- [Amblyopopone: unjustified emendation of spelling by Dalla Torre, 1893: 13.]
- [Note: Amblyopopona was treated as a junior synonym of Amblyopone by Smith, 1979: 1334; Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 19; Bolton, 2003: 154, and Amblyopopone as a junior synonym of Amblyopone by Forel, 1893b: 166; Emery, 1911e: 25; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 19; Tang et al., 1995: 24; Bolton, 2003: 154; the names are best regarded as unjustified emendations of spelling.]
- [Amblopone: incorrect subsequent spelling by Tang et al., 1995: 24.]
Junior synonyms
- Amblyopopona Schulz, 1906
- Amblyopopone Dalla Torre, 1893
- Neoamblyopone Wheeler, 1927
- Protamblyopone Wheeler, 1927
Genus Amblyopone catalogues
Mayr, 1863a: 394; Roger, 1863b: 20; Cresson, 1887: 259 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893: 13; Emery, 1911e: 25; Wheeler, 1922: 758 (Afrotropical); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 22 (Asia); Kempf, 1972b: 19 (Neotropical); Smith, 1979: 1334 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 18 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 6 (Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand); Bolton, 1995b: 61.
Genus Amblyopone references
Mayr, 1865: 16 (diagnosis); Emery, 1882a: 233 (Europe, Algeria species key); Forel, 1900d: 55 (India, Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 37 (India, Sri Lanka, Burma Stigmatomma species key); Emery, 1911e: 25 (diagnosis); Santschi, 1915a: 55 (Mediterranean species key); Emery, 1916a: 100 (Italy species key); Bondroit, 1918: 80 (France, Belgium species key); Wheeler, 1927c: 3 (Austral and New Guinea species key); Brown, 1958h: 11 (New Zealand species); Brown, 1960a: 155 (diagnosis, review of genus), 191 (New World species key); Baroni Urbani, 1978a: 41 (Mediterranean species key); Taylor, 1979: 824 (Melanesia species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 264 (Balkans species key); Ogata, 1987a: 103 (diagnosis, Japan species); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78 (synoptic classification); Morisita et al., 1989: 11 (Japan species key); Terayama, 1989b: 345 (Taiwan species key); Tinaut, 1990d: 189 (Iberian Peninsula species); Dlussky et al., 1990: 173 (Turkmenistan species key); Lattke, 1991d: 6 (New World species key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 61 (Bulgaria species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1047 (census); Onoyama, 1999: 190 (Japan species key); Shattuck, 1999: 179 (Australia synopsis); Xu, 2001d: 552 (East and South Asia species key); Lacau & Delabie, 2002: 40 (Neotropical species key); Xu, 2006: 152 (China species key); Arias-Penna, 2008a: 43 (Neotropical species key); Terayama, 2009: 93 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009: 131 (south-western Australia species key); Bharti & Wachkoo, 2011: 590 (India species key); Ward & Fisher, 2016: 689 (phylogeny); Cantone, 2017: 103 (brief male diagnosis); Heterick, 2021: 36 (Western Australia species key).
Genus Amblyopone references note
Prior to 2016, Amblyopone references usually also include species of some other Amblyoponinae genera.
Citations
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Extant: 10 valid species
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