Ponera menglana
Xu, 2001a:
54, figs. 7-9 (w.)
CHINA (Yunnan).
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: China: Yunnan Prov., Mengla County, Bubang Village, 730 m., 17.viii.1997, No. A97-2046, ground sample, karst monsoon forest (G. Zeng). Type-depository: SFCY.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 38 paratype workers, 3 paratype queens, 2 paratype males. Paratype-locality: 4 paratype workers, 2 paratype males with same data as holotype, 3 paratype workers with same data as holotype but No. A97-2024, 9 paratype workers with same data as holotype but No. A97-2029, 7 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen Yunnan Prov., Mengla County, Menglun Town, Cuipingfeng, 660 m., 10.viii.1997, No. A97-1134 (Y. He), 6 paratype workers with same data as last but No. A97-1153 (T. Liu), 9 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens with same data as last but No. A97-1162 (Z. Xu). Paratype-depository: SFCY.
- Status as species: Xu, 2001c: 219 (in key); Zhou & Ran, 2010: 109; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 62; Leong et al., 2019: 18 (in key); Wang et al., 2022: 133.
Citations
- Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
- Leong, C.-M.; Guénard, B.; Shiao, S.-F.; Lin, C.-C. 2019. Taxonomic revision of the genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan and Japan, with a key to East Asian species. Zootaxa 4594:1-86. 10.11646/zootaxa.4594.1.1 PDF
- 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. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006:1-152. [online early] 10.20362/am.015006 PDF
- Xu, Z.-H. 2001a. A systematic study on the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of China. Entomotaxonomia 23:51-60. PDF
- Xu, Z.-H. 2001c. Four new species of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Yunnan, China. Entomotaxonomia 23:217-226. PDF
- Zhou, S.; Ran, H. 2010. Checklist of poneromorph subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in China. Journal of Guangxi Normal University (Natural Science Edition) 28 (4):101-113.