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Dinoponera Roger, 1861 valid feminine

Dinoponera Roger, 1861a: 37 Type-species: Ponera grandis (obsolete combination of Dinoponera gigantea), by monotypy.

Dinoponera in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 714 (in key) [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865: 14 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 31.
Dinoponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
Dinoponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l: 767; Forel, 1895b: 113; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 63 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Forel, 1917: 237; Wheeler, 1922: 647; all subsequent authors.

Genus Dinoponera references

Roger, 1863b: 19 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a: 407 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 14 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 31 (catalogue); Emery, 1911e: 63 (diagnosis, catalogue); Kempf, 1971: 387 (all species revision, key); Kempf, 1972b: 96 (catalogue); Brandão, 1991: 340 (catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 164 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1049 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 171 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003: 161 (synopsis); Fernández, 2008a: 139 (all species key); Lenhart et al., 2013 (diagnosis, all species revision, keys for workers and males); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 140 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Escárraga et al., 2017: 134 (revised key to species based on males); Cantone, 2017: 257 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 519 (Colombia species)

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
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Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
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Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
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Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
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Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
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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
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Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
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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
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Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
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Escárraga, M. E.; Lattke, J. E.; Azevedo, C. O. 2017. Discovery of the Dinoponera lucida male (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), a threatened giant ant from the Atlantic rain forest. Zootaxa 4347:128-136. 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.7 PDF
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Fernández, F. 2008a. Subfamilia Ponerinae s. str. Pp. 123-218 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
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Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J. 2019. Subfamilia Ponerinae. Capítulo 17. Pp. 509-553 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
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Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
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Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
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Kempf, W. W. 1971. A preliminary review of the ponerine ant genus Dinoponera Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 14:369-394. PDF
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Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
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Lenhart, P. A.; Dash, S. T.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. A revision of the giant Amazonian ants of the genus Dinoponera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 31:119-164. PDF
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Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776. PDF
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Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
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Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Novara Expedition 1865. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. PDF
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Roger, J. 1861a. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen (Schluss). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 5:1-54. PDF
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Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
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Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. PDF
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Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
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Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
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Extant: 8 valid species, 2 valid subspecies

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