Prionopelta opaca
Emery, 1897
valid
Prionopelta opaca
Emery, 1897c:
596, pl. 15, figs. 44, 45 (w.q.m.)
NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
Australasia.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: (no further data) (L. Biró). Primary type depositories: HNHM, MHNG, MSNG.
- Wheeler & Wheeler, 1964b: 447 (l.)
- Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 33; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 26; Wilson, 1958c: 149; Brown, 1960a: 178, 220; Taylor, 1976a: 78; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 39; Taylor, 1987a: 64; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Clouse, 2007b: 260; Shattuck, 2008b: 29 (redescription); Sarnat et al., 2013: 69.
- Senior synonym of Prionopelta mocsaryi: Brown, 1958k: 149; Brown, 1960a: 178, 216; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Shattuck, 2008b: 29.
Junior synonyms
- Prionopelta mocsaryi Forel, 1907
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958k. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Prionopelta attributed to Brown.]. P. 149 in: Wilson, E. O. 1958c. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. I. The tribe Leptogenyini. II. The tribes Amblyoponini and Platythyreini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:101-153. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122:143-230. PDF
- Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
- Clouse, R. M. 2007b. The ants of Micronesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Micronesica 39:171-295. PDF
- Emery, C. 1897c. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Természetrajzi Füzetek 20:571-599. PDF
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
- Sarnat, E. M.; Blanchard, B.; Guénard, B.; Fasi, J.; Economo, E. P. 2013. Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island. ZooKeys 257:47-88. PDF
- Shattuck, S. O. 2008b. Revision of the ant genus Prionopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Indo-Pacific region. Zootaxa 1846:21-34. PDF
- Taylor, R. W. 1976a. The ants of Rennell and Bellona Islands. Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands 7:73-90.
- 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.
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1964b. The ant larvae of the subfamily Ponerinae: supplement. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 57:443-462. PDF
- Wilson, E. O. 1958c. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. I. The tribe Leptogenyini. II. The tribes Amblyoponini and Platythyreini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:101-153. PDF
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
- All genera
- Incertae sedis
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae