Ponera yakushimensis
Tanaka, 1974
junior synonym of current valid taxon Ponera scabra Wheeler, 1928
Ponera yakushimensis
Tanaka, 1974b:
32, fig. 1 (w.q.)
JAPAN (Yaku I.).
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Japan: Kagoshima Pref., Yaku I., Ohsugidani (ca 1200 m.), 5.viii.1970 (M. Tanaka). Type-depository: OMNH.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 2 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Paratype-locality: same as for holotype. Paratype-depository: OMNH.
- Status as species: Onoyama, 1980a: 196; Morisita et al., 1989: 23; Imai et al., 2003: 216.
- Junior synonym of Ponera scabra: Yoshimura et al., 2009: 195; Leong et al., 2019: 43.
Citations
- Imai, H. T.; Kihara, A.; Kondoh, M.; Kubota, M.; Kuribayashi, S.; Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K.; Taylor, R. W.; Terayama, M.; Tsukii, Y.; Yoshimura, M.; Ugawa, Y. 2003. Ants of Japan. Tokyo: Gakken, 224 pp. 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
- Morisita, M.; Kubota, M.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Kondoh, M.; Imai, H. T. 1989. A guide for the identification of Japanese ants. I. Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, Pseudomyrmecinae, Dorylinae, and Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Japanese.]. Tokyo: Myrmecological Society of Japan, 42 pp.
- Onoyama, K. 1980a. An introduction to the ant fauna of Japan, with a check list (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Kontyû 48:193-212. PDF
- Tanaka, M. 1974b. A new species of the ant genus Ponera from Yaku Island (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Entomological Review of Japan 27:32-36. PDF
- Yoshimura, M.; Hosoishi, S.; Kuboki, Y.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K. 2009. New synonym and new Japanese record of the ant genus Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological Science 12:194-201. PDF
†fossil
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unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
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