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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Mesoponera
›
Mesoponera rubra
Mesoponera
rubra
(Smith, 1857)
valid
Ponera rubra
Smith, 1857a
: 66 (q.) SINGAPORE. Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype queen. Type-locality: Singapore: “SING 7” (
A.R. Wallace
). Type-depository:
OXUM
.
Imai
et al.
, 1984
: 67 (k.);
Tjan
et al.
, 1986
: 57 (k.)
Combination in
Euponera (Mesoponera)
:
Emery, 1901b
: 46.
Combination in
Pachycondyla
:
Brown, 1995a
: 309.
Combination in
Mesoponera
:
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
: 111.
Status as species:
Smith, 1858a
: 86;
Mayr, 1863a
: 450;
Smith, 1871a
: 321;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 42;
Emery, 1893i
: 259;
Emery, 1911e
: 81;
Donisthorpe, 1932c
: 447;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 65;
Bolton, 1995b
: 309;
Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005
: 31;
Pfeiffer
et al.
, 2011
: 57;
Khachonpisitsak
et al.
, 2020
: 149;
Wang
et al.
, 2022
: 127.
Obsolete combinations
Euponera rubra
Pachycondyla rubra
Ponera rubra
Citations
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1995a.
[Untitled. Taxonomic changes in
Pachycondyla
and
Neoponera
attributed to Brown.].
Pp. 302-311 in:
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.
1893i.
Voyage de M. E. Simon aux îles Philippines (mars et avril 1890). Formicides.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62:259-270.
PDF
Emery, C.
1901b.
Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides).
Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54.
PDF
Emery, C.
1911e.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae.
Genera Insectorum 118:1-125.
PDF
Imai, H. T.
;
Brown, W. L., Jr.
;
Kubota, M.
;
Yong, H.-S.
;
Tho, Y. P.
1984.
Chromosome observations on tropical ants from western Malaysia. II.
Annual Report. National Institute of Genetics, Japan 34:66-69.
PDF
Jaitrong, W.
;
Nabhitabhata, J.
2005.
A list of known ant species of Thailand (Formicidae: Hymenoptera).
The Thailand Natural History Museum Journal 1(1):9-54.
PDF
Khachonpisitsak, S.
;
Yamane, S.
;
Sriwichai, P.
;
Jaitrong, W.
2020.
An updated checklist of the ants of Thailand (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).
ZooKeys 998:1-182.
10.3897/zookeys.998.54902
PDF
Mayr, G.
1863a.
Formicidarum index synonymicus.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460.
PDF
Pfeiffer, M.
;
Mezger, D.
;
Hosoishi, S.
;
Bakhtiar, E. Y.
;
Kohout, R. J.
2011.
The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list.
Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58.
PDF
Schmidt, C. A.
;
Shattuck, S. O.
2014.
The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior.
Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242.
10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1
PDF
Smith, F.
1857a.
Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part].
Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 2:42-88.
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
Tjan, K. N.
;
Imai, H. T.
;
Kubota, M.
;
Brown, W. L., Jr.
;
Gotwald, W. H., Jr.
;
Yong, H.-S.
;
Leh, C.
1986.
Chromosome observations of Sarawak ants.
Annual Report. National Institute of Genetics, Japan 36:57.
Wang, W. Y.
;
Soh, E. J. Y.
;
Yong, G. W. J.
;
Wong, M. K. L.
;
Guénard, B.
;
Economo, E. P.
;
Yamane, S.
2022.
Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy.
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10.20362/am.015006
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