Ponera exotica

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Ponera exotica Smith, 1962 valid

Ponera exotica Smith, 1962b: 378, fig. 1 (w.q.) U.S.A. (North Carolina). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: U.S.A.: North Carolina, Craven County, Croatan National Forest, 2 mi. E Croatan, 20.viii.1960, no. 11 (W.G. Carter). Type-depository: USNM. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: 28 paratype workers, 4 paratype queens. Paratype-locality: same as for holotype. Paratype-depositories: MCZC, USNM.

Status as species: Taylor, 1967a: 96 (redescription); Smith, 1967a: 348; Taylor, 1968a: 64; Smith, 1979: 1342; Johnson, 1987: 358; Deyrup et al., 1989: 93; Bolton, 1995b: 361; Deyrup, 2003: 46; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 67; Deyrup, 2017: 34.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Deyrup, M. 2003. An updated list of Florida ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Florida Entomologist 86:43-48. PDF
Deyrup, M. 2017. Ants of Florida. Identification and natural history. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis group), 423 pp.
Deyrup, M.; Johnson, C.; Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1989. A preliminary list of the ants of Florida. Florida Entomologist 72:91-101. PDF
Johnson, C. 1987. Biogeography and habitats of Ponera exotica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Entomological Science 22:358-361. PDF
MacGown, J. A.; Forster, J. A. 2005. A preliminary list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Alabama, U. S. A. Entomological News 116:61-74. 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.
Smith, M. R. 1962b. A new species of exotic Ponera from North Carolina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Hymenopterologica 1:377-382. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1967a. Family Formicidae. Pp. 343-374 in: Krombein, K. V.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1967. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalog. Second supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 2):1-584. 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. 1968a. Nomenclature and synonymy of the North American ants of the genera Ponera and Hypoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 79:63-66. PDF

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