Ponera iridipennis

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Ponera iridipennis Smith, 1858 an obsolete combination of Leptogenys iridipennis (Smith, 1858)

Ponera iridipennis Smith, 1858a: 85 (m.) INDIA. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: India: North Bengal, “42/25” (Campbell). Primary type depository: BMNH. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 474, cites 1 male in BMNH (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978). 2) BMNH accessions register gives: “1842 no. 25. N. Bengal. Purchd of Miss Campbell. Collected by her brother Lieut. Campbell in the N. part of Bengal presidency” (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).

Citations

Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF

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