Odontoponera reticulata

Odontoponera reticulata (Smith, 1858) junior synonym of current valid taxon Odontoponera denticulata (Smith, 1858)

Ponera reticulata Smith, 1858a: 85 (m.) MYANMAR. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: Myanmar (“Burma”): “57/16” (Waring). Primary type depository: BMNH. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 474, cites 1 male in BMNH (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978). 2) BMNH accessions register gives: “1857 no. 16. Birmah. Purchased from Stevens. Collected by Mrs Waring.”. 3) The specimen also bears a Donisthorpe det. label dated 30.vii.1932, “Odontoponera transversa Smith, 1857a, male.” (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).

Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 450; Smith, 1871a: 320; Dalla Torre, 1893: 42; Emery, 1911e: 116; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 72.
Junior synonym of Odontoponera transversa: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 474; Bolton, 1995b: 298; Zhou, 2001a: 47.
Junior synonym of Odontoponera denticulata: Yamane, 2009: 7 (in text).

Obsolete combinations

Ponera reticulata

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
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF
Yamane, S. 2009. Odontoponera denticulata (F. Smith) (Formicidae: Ponerinae), a distinct species inhabiting disturbed areas. A R I 32:1-8. PDF
Zhou, S. 2001a. Ants of Guangxi. [In Chinese.]. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 255 pp. PDF

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