Hypoponera opacior

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Hypoponera opacior (Forel, 1893) valid

Ponera trigona var. opacior Forel, 1893j: 363 (w.q.) ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES (St Vincent). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: St Vincent & the Grenadines: St Vincent I., 41e, 41f, 41g, and 41j (H.H. Smith). [Note: 41e = Near Palmyra Estate (leeward), 1000 ft, 3.xi., 41f = Fitz Hugh Valley (leeward), 500 ft, 14.xi., 41g = “various localites and dates, 2500 ft to sea level”, 41j = Hermitage Estate, Cumberland Valley, 1000 ft, 2.xii.] Primary type depositories: MCZC, MHNG (perhaps also BMNH).

Emery, 1895d: 268 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1964b: 454 (l.)
Combination in Hypoponera: Taylor, 1968a: 65
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1895n: 64.
Subspecies of Hypoponera trigona: Emery, 1895d: 268; Wheeler, 1905c: 121; Emery, 1906c: 116; Wheeler, 1908h: 405; Wheeler, 1910a: 561; Emery, 1911e: 92; Wheeler, 1913b: 482; Wheeler, 1913d: 112; Wheeler, 1913e: 239; Bruch, 1914: 214; Forel, 1914d: 265; Wheeler, 1914c: 40; Wheeler, 1917g: 457; Gallardo, 1918c: 81; Wheeler, 1922e: 3; Wheeler, 1922n: 317; Menozzi & Russo, 1930: 150; Santschi, 1930e: 76; Smith, 1930a: 2; Wheeler, 1932a: 3; Goetsch & Menozzi, 1935: 94; Menozzi, 1935c: 320; Wheeler, 1935g: 13; Smith, 1936d: 423 (redescription); Smith, 1937: 826; Wheeler, 1937b: 446; Dennis, 1938: 277; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 91; Cole, 1942: 359; Buren, 1944a: 280; Creighton, 1950a: 49; Smith, 1951c: 787; Cole, 1953d: 84; Smith, 1954c: 2; Smith, 1958c: 112; Carter, 1962a: 6 (in list); Smith, 1967a: 348; Kempf, 1970a: 20; Kempf, 1972b: 124; Alayo, 1974: 30.
Status as species: Kempf, 1962b: 10; Taylor, 1968a: 65; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 20; Kempf & Lenko, 1976: 56; Snelling & Hunt, 1976: 66; Smith, 1979: 1343; Snelling & George, 1979: 22; Allred, 1982: 478; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 19; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 135; Deyrup et al., 1989: 93; Brandão, 1991: 347; Bolton, 1995b: 215; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 35; Deyrup, 2003: 45; Coovert, 2005: 29; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 67; Ward, 2005: 68; Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 49 (redescription); Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 262; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 123; Deyrup, 2017: 23; Dash & Mackay, 2019: 565; Lubertazzi, 2019: 121.

Obsolete combinations

Ponera trigona opacior

Citations

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