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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
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Ponerinae
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Brachyponera
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Brachyponera chinensis
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Brachyponera
chinensis
(Emery, 1895)
valid
Ponera nigrita subsp. chinensis
Emery, 1895m
: 460 (in text) (w.) CHINA (Shanghai). Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: China: Shanghai (no collector’s name) (sent by Wasmann). Primary type depository:
MSNG
.
[Misspelled as
sinensis
by
Imai & Kubota, 1972
: 194.]
Replacement name for
Brachyponera solitaria
Smith, 1874b
. [Junior primary homonym of
Pachycondyla solitaria
Smith, 1860b
.]
[Note:
Brachyponera chinensis
junior synonym of
Brachyponera solitaria
Smith, 1874b
(synonymy by
Brown, 1958h
: 22); hence
Brachyponera chinensis
first available replacement name.]
Wheeler, 1921c
: 530 (q.);
Ogata, 1987a
: 116 (m.);
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986c
: 88 (l.);
Imai & Kubota, 1972
: 194 (k.)
Combination in
Euponera (Brachyponera)
:
Emery, 1909d
: 367.
Combination in
Pachycondyla
:
Brown, 1995a
: 304.
Combination in
Brachyponera
:
Brown, 1958h
: 22;
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
: 80.
Subspecies of
Brachyponera nigrita
:
Emery, 1909d
: 367;
Emery, 1911e
: 84;
Wheeler, 1921c
: 530;
Santschi, 1925f
: 82;
Wheeler, 1929g
: 1;
Wheeler, 1929h
: 35;
Wheeler, 1930k
: 60;
Baltazar, 1966
: 244.
Subspecies of
Brachyponera luteipes
:
Wheeler, 1927h
: 84;
Wheeler, 1928c
: 6;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 64.
Junior synonym of
Brachyponera luteipes
:
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b
: 103.
Junior synonym of
Pachycondyla solitaria
:
Brown, 1958h
: 22;
Onoyama, 1980a
: 196;
Terayama, 2009
: 104.
Status as species:
Brown, 1958h
: 22;
Collingwood, 1976a
: 300;
Azuma, 1977a
: 112;
Onoyama, 1980a
: 196;
Taylor, 1987a
: 10;
Morisita
et al.
, 1989
: 19;
Wang, 1992
: 677;
Xu, 1994b
: 182;
Bolton, 1995b
: 304;
Tang
et al.
, 1995
: 32;
Kim
et al.
, 1998
: 147;
Zhou, 2001a
: 52;
Zhang & Zheng, 2002
: 218;
Imai
et al.
, 2003
: 211;
Lin & Wu, 2003
: 67;
Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005
: 30;
Radchenko, 2005b
: 131;
Don, 2007
: 188;
Terayama, 2009
: 104;
MacKay & MacKay, 2010
: 247 (redescription);
Yashiro
et al.
, 2010
: 42;
Zhou & Ran, 2010
: 107;
Ellison
et al.
, 2012
: 91;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012
: 60;
Jaitrong
et al.
, 2016
: 40;
Khachonpisitsak
et al.
, 2020
: 139.
Obsolete combinations
Ponera nigrita chinensis
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