Pseudoponera brunneus

Pseudoponera brunneus (Donisthorpe, 1948) junior synonym of current valid taxon Pseudoponera stigma (Fabricius, 1804)

Euponera (Trachymesopus) brunneus Donisthorpe, 1948b: 300 (w.q.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: 4 syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Type-locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, 1.viii.1944 (E.S. Ross). Type-depository: CASC.

Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1950a: 338; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 65.
Junior synonym of Pseudoponera stigma: Wilson, 1958g: 355; Smith, 1979: 1340; Bolton, 1995b: 303; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 519.

Obsolete combinations

Euponera brunneus

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. 1948b ("1947"). A second instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:297-317. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1950a. An eighth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)3:338-341. PDF
MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp. PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
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