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Ponera petila Wilson, 1957 valid

Ponera petila Wilson, 1957b: 368, fig. 2 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: lower Busu River, nr Lae, 10.v.1955, acc. no. 999 (E.O. Wilson). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: MCZ-ENT00030124.

Status as species: Wilson, 1958g: 334; Taylor, 1967a: 102 (redescription); Perrault, 1993: 337 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 362; Csősz et al., 2023: 8 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Ponera bableti: Csősz et al., 2023: 8.

Junior synonyms

Ponera bableti Perrault, 1993

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Csősz, S.; Loss, A. C.; Fisher, B. L. 2023. Exploring the diversity of the Malagasy Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna via integrative taxonomy. Organisms Diversity & Evolution -:11 pp. [online early] 10.1007/s13127-023-00610-1 PDF
Perrault, G. H. 1993. Peuplement en fourmis de l'atoll de Fangataufa. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 98:323-338. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1967a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 13:1-112. PDF
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

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