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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Hypoponera
›
Hypoponera opaciceps
Hypoponera
opaciceps
(Mayr, 1887)
valid
Ponera opaciceps
Mayr, 1887
: 536 (w.q.) BRAZIL (Santa Catarina). Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of
Kempf, 1962b
: 7). Type-locality: lectotype Brazil: Santa Catarina (
Hetschko
). Type-depository:
NHMW
.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 1 paralectotype worker, 2 paralectotype queens. Paratype-locality: same as for lectotype. Paratype-depository:
NHMW
.
Lectotype designation:
Kempf, 1962b
: 7.
[Misspelled as
oaciceps
by
Santschi, 1925b
: 8.]
Smith, 1929c
: 545 (m.);
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1964b
: 453 (l.)
Combination in
Hypoponera
:
Taylor, 1967a
: 11
Status as species:
Emery, 1888c
: 353;
Emery, 1888e
: 690;
Forel, 1893j
: 363;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 40;
von Jhering, 1894
: 380;
Emery, 1895d
: 267;
Forel, 1895b
: 116;
Emery, 1896g
: 55 (in key);
Forel, 1901d
: 123;
Wheeler, 1905c
: 82, 121;
Wheeler, 1906i
: 335;
Wheeler, 1906j
: 348;
Emery, 1906c
: 116;
Wheeler, 1908a
: 124;
Wheeler, 1908h
: 404;
Forel, 1909a
: 244;
Wheeler, 1910a
: 561;
Emery, 1911e
: 92;
Wheeler, 1911a
: 22;
Wheeler, 1913b
: 482;
Wheeler, 1913d
: 112;
Forel, 1914d
: 264;
Bruch, 1914
: 214;
Wheeler & Mann, 1914
: 13;
Bruch, 1915
: 528;
Donisthorpe, 1915f
: 336;
Mann, 1916
: 416;
Wheeler, 1916c
: 3;
Wheeler, 1916f
: 323;
Wheeler, 1917g
: 457;
Gallardo, 1918c
: 77;
Mann, 1920b
: 404;
Wheeler, 1922e
: 3;
Borgmeier, 1923
: 73;
Wheeler, 1925a
: 8;
Santschi, 1925b
: 8;
Smith, 1927b
: 308;
Donisthorpe, 1927c
: 386;
Smith, 1929c
: 545;
Santschi, 1929d
: 277;
Menozzi & Russo, 1930
: 150;
Smith, 1930a
: 2;
Aguayo, 1932
: 216;
Wheeler, 1932a
: 3;
Smith, 1936d
: 428 (redescription);
Wheeler, 1936c
: 196;
Cole, 1937a
: 98;
Smith, 1937
: 825;
Wheeler, 1937c
: 59;
Wheeler, 1938
: 251;
Santschi, 1939f
: 160;
Weber, 1948b
: 79;
Creighton, 1950a
: 49;
Smith, 1951c
: 786;
Kusnezov, 1953c
: 336;
Smith, 1958c
: 112;
Kempf, 1960e
: 391;
Kempf, 1962b
: 7 (redescription);
Smith, 1967a
: 348;
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b
: 28;
Taylor, 1968a
: 65;
Kempf, 1972b
: 123;
Alayo, 1974
: 7 (in key);
Hunt & Snelling, 1975
: 20;
Smith, 1979
: 1343;
Snelling & George, 1979
: 21;
Allred, 1982
: 478;
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g
: 18;
Taylor, 1987a
: 30;
MacKay
et al.
, 1988
: 86;
Zolessi
et al.
, 1988
: 2;
Morisita
et al.
, 1989
: 26;
Deyrup
et al.
, 1989
: 93;
Perrault, 1993
: 333;
Dlussky, 1994a
: 53;
Bolton, 1995b
: 215;
Mackay & Mackay, 2002
: 34;
Wetterer, 2002
: 129;
Deyrup, 2003
: 45;
Imai
et al.
, 2003
: 215;
Lin & Wu, 2003
: 67;
Wetterer & Vargo, 2003
: 417;
Wetterer & Wetterer, 2004
: 215;
Coovert, 2005
: 29;
MacGown & Forster, 2005
: 67;
Ward, 2005
: 68;
Wild, 2007b
: 39, 54;
Clouse, 2007b
: 264;
Framenau & Thomas, 2008
: 77;
Terayama, 2009
: 113;
Zhou & Ran, 2010
: 104;
Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012
: 262;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012
: 59;
Sarnat & Economo, 2012
: 150;
Borowiec, 2014
: 82;
Ramage, 2014
: 152;
Bezděčková
et al.
, 2015
: 123;
Feitosa, 2015c
: 98;
Wetterer
et al.
, 2016
: 12;
Deyrup, 2017
: 23;
Dash & Mackay, 2019
: 564;
Lubertazzi, 2019
: 120;
Herrera
et al.
, 2024
: 202.
Senior synonym of
Hypoponera andrei
:
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b
: 28;
Smith, 1979
: 1343;
Snelling & George, 1979
: 22;
Taylor, 1987a
: 30;
Bolton, 1995b
: 215;
Imai
et al.
, 2003
: 215.
Senior synonym of
Hypoponera perkinsi
:
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b
: 28;
Smith, 1979
: 1343;
Snelling & George, 1979
: 21;
Taylor, 1987a
: 30;
Bolton, 1995b
: 215;
Imai
et al.
, 2003
: 215;
Terayama, 2009
: 113;
Ramage, 2014
: 152.
Senior synonym of
Hypoponera opaciceps postangustata
:
Wild, 2007b
: 54.
Junior synonyms
Hypoponera andrei
(Emery, 1900)
Obsolete combination(s):
Ponera andrei
Hypoponera opaciceps postangustata
(Forel, 1908)
Obsolete combination(s):
Ponera opaciceps postangustata
Hypoponera perkinsi
(Forel, 1899)
Obsolete combination(s):
Ponera perkinsi
Obsolete combinations
Ponera opaciceps
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
H. o. cubana
(Santschi, 1930)
H. o. gaigei
(Forel, 1914)
H. o. jamaicensis
(Aguayo, 1932)
H. o. pampana
(Santschi, 1925)
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1908h.
The ants of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. (Part I.).
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:399-485.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1910a.
Ants: their structure, development and behavior.
New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1911a.
Additions to the ant-fauna of Jamaica.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 30:21-29.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1913b.
The ants of Cuba.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 54:477-505.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1913d.
Ants collected in Georgia by Dr. J. C. Bradley and Mr. W. T. Davis.
Psyche (Cambridge) 20:112-117.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1916c.
Ants collected in British Guiana by the expedition of the American Museum of Natural History during 1911.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35:1-14.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1916f.
Ants collected in Trinidad by Professor Roland Thaxter, Mr. F. W. Urich, and others.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60:323-330.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1917g.
Jamaican ants collected by Prof. C. T. Brues.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 61:457-471.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1922e.
The ants of Trinidad.
American Museum Novitates 45:1-16.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1925a.
Neotropical ants in the collections of the Royal Museum of Stockholm.
Arkiv för Zoologi 17A(8):1-55.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1932a.
A list of the ants of Florida with descriptions of new forms.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 40:1-17.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1936c.
Ants from Hispaniola and Mona Island.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 80:195-211.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1937c.
Mosaics and other anomalies among ants.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 95 pp.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1938.
Ants from the caves of Yucatan.
Pp. 251-255 in:
Pearse, A. S.
1938.
Fauna of the caves of Yucatan.
Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 491:1-304.
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Wheeler, W. M.
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Mann, W. M.
1914.
The ants of Haiti.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33:1-61.
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Wild, A. L.
2007b.
A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Zootaxa 1622:1-55.
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Wilson, E. O.
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Taylor, R. W.
1967b.
The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109.
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Zhou, S.
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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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Lista sistemática de las especies de Formícidos del Uruguay.
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