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Ponera Latreille, 1804 valid feminine
Ponera Latreille, 1804: 179 Type-species: Formica coarctata (obsolete combination of Ponera coarctata), by subsequent designation of Westwood, 1840a: 83.
Type notes: Type-designation is discussed by Taylor, 1967a: 6.
Junior synonyms
Obsolete classifications
Genus Ponera catalogues

Mayr, 1863a: 447; Roger, 1863b: 16; Emery & Forel, 1879: 455 (Europe); Cresson, 1887: 258 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893: 37; Emery, 1901b: 44 (species list); Emery, 1911e: 90; Wheeler, 1922: 780, 1009 (Afrotropical, Malagasy); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 68, 73, 74 (Asia Ponera, Pseudocryptopone, Selenopone); Smith, 1951c: 786 (North America); Smith, 1979: 1341 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 38 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 63 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand); Bolton, 1995b: 360; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 204 (species checklist); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 384 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist). [Note: prior to 1967 catalogues and references include both Hypoponera and Ponera species.]

Genus Ponera references

Latreille, 1818c: 569; Mayr, 1855: 386 (diagnosis); Smith, 1858a: 83 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1861: 54 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1862: 721 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1865: 13 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 85 (diagnosis); Forel, 1874: 64 (Switzerland species key); Mayr, 1879: 661 (all species key); André, 1882d: 239 (Europe & Algeria species key); Emery, 1895n: 60 (Mediterranean species key); Emery, 1896g: 53 (New World species key); Emery, 1900b: 316 (Australia, Papuasia & Oceania species key); Forel, 1900f: 322 (India & Sri Lanka Ponera (Ponera) species key); Emery, 1901b: 41 (diagnosis); Bingham, 1903: 89 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1909d: 367 (Palaearctic species key); Emery, 1911e: 88 (diagnosis); Arnold, 1915: 76 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Emery, 1916a: 107 (Italy species key); Bondroit, 1918: 81 (France & Belgium species key); Gallardo, 1918c: 73 (Argentina species key); Mann, 1921: 419 (Fiji Is species key); Menozzi, 1931b: 266 (Costa Rica species key); Wheeler, 1933g: 13 (Pseudocryptopone species key); Smith, 1936d: 420 (North America species key); Stitz, 1939: 58 (Germany species key); Creighton, 1950a: 47 (Nearctic species key); Bernard, 1953b: 197 (West Africa species key); Wilson, 1957b: 359, 376 (Ponera tenuis, Ponera selenophora groups revisions, keys); Wilson, 1958g: 323, 343 (Melanesia & Moluccas species, Fiji Is species revisions, keys); Brown, 1958h: 22 (New Zealand species); Taylor, 1960: 180 (Ponera leae complex, key); Taylor, 1964: 139 (fossil species, review); Taylor, 1967a: 18 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Bernard, 1967a: 83 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Ogata, 1987a: 120 (diagnosis, Japan); Morisita et al., 1989: 22 (Japan species key); Perrault, 1993: 337 (addition to Taylor, 1967a key); Bolton, 1994: 164 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Terayama, 1996b: 14 (Japan species key); Dlussky, 1997a: 51 (in Baltic amber genera key); Kim et al., 1998: 149 (Korea species key); Shattuck, 1999: 199 (Australia synopsis); Xu, 2001a: 52 (China species key); Xu, 2001c: 218 (China species key); Zhou, 2001a: 37 (China, Guangxi species key); Bolton, 2003: 170 (synopsis); Yoshimura et al., 2009: 200 (Japan species key); Terayama, 2009: 109 (Taiwan species key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 162 (Fiji Is species key); Eguchi et al., 2014: 39 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 200 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Bharti & Rilta, 2015a: 15 (India species key); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 384 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 271 (brief male diagnosis); Leong et al., 2019: 12 (East Asian species key); Pierce et al., 2019: 20 (worker key to East Asian species); Heterick, 2021: 212 (Western Australia species key); Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 29 (diagnosis, key to Greece species); Csősz et al., 2023: 4 (synopsis, phylogeny of Madagascar species), 6 (Madagascar worker key); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 354 (Malagasy region male diagnosis). [Note: prior to 1967 catalogues and references include both Hypoponera and Ponera species.]

Citations

Extant: 59 valid species (8 synonyms, 1 homonym, 4 unidentifiable, 3 unavailable, 1 excluded from Formicidae, 295 obsolete combinations), 0 valid subspecies (4 synonyms, 1 homonym, 1 unavailable, 83 obsolete combinations)

Fossil: 5 valid species (1 excluded from Formicidae, 17 obsolete combinations)

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