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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Brachyponera
›
Brachyponera luteipes
Brachyponera
luteipes
(Mayr, 1862)
valid
Ponera luteipes
Mayr, 1862
: 722 (w.q.) INDIA (Nicobar Is). Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype worker(s), syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: India: Nicobar Is, Milu I. (Novara Expd.) (sent by R. von Frauenfeld). Primary type depository:
NHMW
.
Forel, 1900f
: 326 (m.);
Imai & Yosida, 1965
: 64 (k.);
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976a
: 47 (l.)
Combination in
Euponera (Brachyponera)
:
Emery, 1900b
: 315;
Emery, 1911e
: 84;
Wheeler, 1919f
: 56.
Combination in
Pachycondyla
:
Brown, 1995a
: 307.
Combination in
Brachyponera
:
Bingham, 1903
: 101;
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
: 80.
Status as species:
Roger, 1863b
: 16;
Mayr, 1865
: 70 (redescription);
Mayr, 1879
: 663 (in key);
Forel, 1885b
: 177;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 40;
Emery, 1893h
: 242;
Emery, 1893i
: 262;
Emery, 1895m
: 459;
Mayr, 1897
: 422;
Forel, 1900f
: 326;
Emery, 1900
: 668;
Bingham, 1903
: 101;
Forel, 1903f
: 400;
Forel, 1904d
: 20;
Forel, 1905f
: 6;
Forel, 1906b
: 91;
Forel, 1908b
: 1;
Forel, 1909i
: 221;
Wheeler, 1909d
: 339;
Emery, 1911e
: 84;
Forel, 1911a
: 23;
Forel, 1911b
: 194;
Forel, 1911c
: 216;
Forel, 1912a
: 49;
Forel, 1913g
: 184;
Forel, 1913l
: 8;
Wheeler, 1919f
: 56;
Santschi, 1920h
: 159;
Wheeler, 1924c
: 242;
Crawley, 1924a
: 384;
Santschi, 1924c
: 97;
Karavaiev, 1925b
: 124;
Wheeler & Chapman, 1925
: 68;
Wheeler, 1927b
: 42;
Wheeler, 1927d
: 1;
Wheeler, 1927h
: 84;
Wheeler, 1928c
: 6;
Wheeler, 1929h
: 59;
Mukerjee, 1930
: 151;
Wheeler, 1930k
: 60;
Kutter, 1932
: 207;
Wheeler, 1937a
: 21;
Menozzi, 1939a
: 328;
Teranishi, 1940
: 56;
Donisthorpe, 1943b
: 197;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 63;
Baltazar, 1966
: 244;
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b
: 103;
Taylor, 1987a
: 10;
Wu & Wang, 1992c
: 1302;
Radchenko, 1993a
: 81;
Xu, 1994b
: 182;
Bolton, 1995b
: 307;
Wu & Wang, 1995a
: 39;
Tang
et al.
, 1995
: 32;
Tiwari, 1999
: 31;
Mathew & Tiwari, 2000
: 286;
Zhou, 2001a
: 52;
Zhang & Zheng, 2002
: 218;
Imai
et al.
, 2003
: 211;
Lin & Wu, 2003
: 68;
Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005
: 31;
Zhou, 2006
: 580;
Don, 2007
: 189;
Clouse, 2007b
: 269;
Terayama, 2009
: 104;
Mohanraj
et al.
, 2010
: 7;
Yashiro
et al.
, 2010
: 42;
Zhou & Ran, 2010
: 108;
Pfeiffer
et al.
, 2011
: 57;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012
: 61;
Bharti
et al.
, 2016
: 49;
Dias
et al.
, 2020
: 105;
Khachonpisitsak
et al.
, 2020
: 139;
Wang
et al.
, 2022
: 116.
Obsolete combinations
Euponera luteipes
Pachycondyla luteipes
Ponera luteipes
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
B. l. continentalis
(Karavaiev, 1925)
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