Ponera caledonica
Wilson, 1957
junior synonym of current valid taxon Ponera leae Forel, 1913
Ponera caledonica
Wilson, 1957b:
361, fig. 2 (w.q.)
NEW CALEDONIA.
Australasia.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: New Caledonia: Ciu, nr Mt Canala, 300 m., 3.i.1955, berlese sample (E.O. Wilson). Type-depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 17 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Paratype-locality: 11 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype, 2 paratype workers Mt Mou, 180 m., 11.xii.1954, acc. no. 128 (E.O. Wilson), 3 paratype workers Chapeau Gendarme (Yahoué), 12 and 27.xii.1954, berlese samples (E.O. Wilson), 1 paratype worker Chapeau Gendarme, 7.xii.1954, berlese sample (E.O. Wilson). Paratype-depository: MCZC.
- Status as species: Wilson, 1958g: 344; Taylor, 1960: 180 (in key).
- Junior synonym of Ponera leae: Taylor, 1967a: 89; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 38; Taylor, 1987a: 63; Bolton, 1995b: 360.
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Taylor, R. W. 1960. Taxonomic notes on the ants Ponera leae Forel and Ponera norfolkensis (Wheeler) (Hymenoptera - Formicidae). Pacific Science 14:178-180. PDF
- Taylor, R. W. 1967a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 13:1-112. PDF
- Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
- Wilson, E. O. 1957b. The tenuis and selenophora groups of the ant genus Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 116:355-386. PDF
- 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
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
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