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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Hypoponera
›
Hypoponera biroi
Hypoponera
biroi
(Emery, 1900)
valid
Ponera biroi
Emery, 1900b
: 318, pl. 8, fig. 9 (w.q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.
Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang) (
L. Biró
). Type-depository:
HNHM
(possibly also in
MSNG
).
Combination in
Ponera (Hypoponera)
:
Santschi, 1938b
: 79.
Combination in
Hypoponera
:
Taylor, 1967a
: 12.
Status as species:
Emery, 1911e
: 90;
Forel, 1913g
: 186;
Forel, 1913l
: 10;
Wheeler, 1929h
: 59;
Donisthorpe, 1949b
: 491;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 68;
Wilson, 1958g
: 327;
Taylor, 1976a
: 80;
Bolton, 1995b
: 213;
Lin & Wu, 2003
: 67;
Terayama, 2009
: 113;
Zhou & Ran, 2010
: 104;
Sarnat
et al.
, 2013
: 73.
Obsolete combinations
Ponera biroi
Citations
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W.
;
Capco, S. R.
1951.
Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia.
Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327.
PDF
Donisthorpe, H.
1949b ("1948").
A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea.
Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:487-506.
PDF
Emery, C.
1900b.
Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda.
Természetrajzi Füzetek 23:310-338.
PDF
Emery, C.
1911e.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae.
Genera Insectorum 118:1-125.
PDF
Forel, A.
1913g.
H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute: Formicidae II.
Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A)79(6):183-202.
PDF
Forel, A.
1913l.
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise nach Ostindien ausgeführt im Auftrage der Kgl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin von H. v. Buttel-Reepen. II. Ameisen aus Sumatra, Java, Malacca und Ceylon. Gesammelt von Herrn Prof. Dr. v. Buttel-Reepen in den Jahren 1911-1912.
Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 36:1-148.
PDF
Lin, C.-C.
;
Wu, W.-J.
2003.
The ant fauna of Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with keys to subfamilies and genera. [In Chinese.].
Guoli Taiwan Bowuguan Niankan 46:5-69.
Santschi, F.
1938b.
Notes sur quelques
Ponera
Latr.
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 43:78-80.
PDF
Sarnat, E. M.
;
Blanchard, B.
;
Guénard, B.
;
Fasi, J.
;
Economo, E. P.
2013.
Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island.
ZooKeys 257:47-88.
PDF
Taylor, R. W.
1967a.
A monographic revision of the ant genus
Ponera
Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Pacific Insects Monograph 13:1-112.
PDF
Taylor, R. W.
1976a.
The ants of Rennell and Bellona Islands.
Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands 7:73-90.
Terayama, M.
2009.
A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera).
Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1929h.
Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines.
Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 24:27-64.
PDF
Wilson, E. O.
1958g.
Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia III.
Rhytidoponera
in western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119:303-371.
PDF
Zhou, S.
;
Ran, H.
2010.
Checklist of poneromorph subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in China.
Journal of Guangxi Normal University (Natural Science Edition) 28 (4):101-113.
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