Boltonopone ancilla
(Emery, 1899)
valid
Ponera (Bothroponera) soror var. ancilla
Emery, 1899d:
472 (w.)
CONGO.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Congo: Kiulu River (no collector’s name) (from Staudinger & Bang-Haas). Primary type depository: MSNG.
- Combination in Pachycondyla (Bothroponera): Emery, 1901b: 46.
- Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 302.
- Combination in Bothroponera: Wheeler, 1922: 74; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77.
- Combination in Boltonopone: Fisher et al., 2025: 326.
- Subspecies of Bothroponera soror: Emery, 1911e: 78; Wheeler, 1922: 74, 772; Bolton, 1995b: 302.
- Status as species: Joma & Mackay, 2017: 12 (redescription); Fisher et al., 2025: 326.
Obsolete combinations
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. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla and Neoponera attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Emery, C. 1899d. Fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 43:459-504. PDF
- Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54. PDF
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
- Fisher, B. L.; Branstetter, M. G.; Blaimer, B. B.; Borowiec, M. L.; Camacho, G. P.; Doré, M; Ward, P. S.; Longino, J. T. 2025. A genus-level classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1264:281-349. [online early] 10.3897/zookeys.1264.173399 PDF
- Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2017. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera sulcata species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 143:7-71. PDF
- Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
†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