Hypoponera elliptica
(Forel, 1900)
valid
Ponera truncata var. elliptica
Forel, 1900b:
62 (w.)
AUSTRALIA.
Australasia.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype worker(s ), syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: (no further data). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB.
Type notes:
1) Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 137, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB. 2) All other Hypoponera species in Forel, 1900b, are from Queensland, Mackay (G. Turner); it is probable that Hypoponera elliptica is the same.
- Combination in Hypoponera: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 31
- Subspecies of Hypoponera truncata: Emery, 1900b: 316 (in key); Emery, 1911e: 92; Emery, 1914f: 397; Forel, 1915b: 24; Wheeler, 1935g: 14.
- Status as species: Wilson, 1958g: 345; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 31; Taylor, 1987a: 29; Bolton, 1995b: 214.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- 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
- Emery, C. 1914f. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437. PDF
- Forel, A. 1900b. Ponerinae et Dorylinae d'Australie récoltés par MM. Turner, Froggatt, Nugent, Chase, Rothney, J.-J. Walker, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44:54-77. PDF
- Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. PDF
- 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.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
- Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
- 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
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
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- clavatula
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- comis
- confinis
- congrua
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- creola
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- distinguenda
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- trigona
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