Neoponera
Emery, 1901
valid
feminine
Neoponera
Emery, 1901b:
43
Type-species:
Formica villosa (obsolete combination of Neoponera villosa), by original designation.
- Neoponera in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c: 382.
- Neoponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e: 70 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Forel, 1917: 237; Wheeler, 1922: 648; all subsequent authors.
- Neoponera as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1973b: 183 [provisional]; Snelling, 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, 1994: 164; Bolton, 2003: 168.
- Neoponera revived from synonymy: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 145
Junior synonyms
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Syntermitopone
Wheeler, 1936
Obsolete classification(s): Termitopone (Syntermitopone)
- Termitopone Wheeler, 1936
Genus Neoponera references
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 145 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Cantone, 2017: 265 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 530 (Colombia species key); Troya & Lattke, 2022: 1 (Neoponera laevigata species-group revision), 11 (worker- and queen-based key to Neoponera species-groups), 18 (Neoponera laevigata species-group differential diagnosis), 20 (Neoponera laevigata species-group species key (workers, queens)), 22 (Neoponera laevigata species-group species key (males)), 23 (Neoponera laevigata species-group description)
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. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J.; Ayensu, E. S.; Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) 1973. Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, viii + 350 pp. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1994. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla, Emeryopone and Ponera attributed to Brown.]. P. 164 in: Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
- 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
- Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54. PDF
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
- 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
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
- 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. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF
- Snelling, R. R. 1981. Systematics of social Hymenoptera. Pp. 369-453 in: Hermann, H. R. (ed.) 1981. Social insects. Volume 2. New York: Academic Press, xiii + 491 pp.
- Troya, A.; Lattke, J. 2022. Neoponera Emery, 1901 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) revisited: 1. The N. laevigata species-group. Insect Systematics & Evolution -:1-76. 10.1163/1876312X-bja10034 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.
Extant: 58 valid species
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