Hypoponera tenella

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Hypoponera tenella (Emery, 1901) valid

Ponera tenella Emery, 1901k: 158, fig. (w.q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Sattelberg (L. Biró). Primary type depositories: HNHM, MSNG.

Combination in Hypoponera: Bolton, 1995b: 216
Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 91; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 73; Wilson, 1958g: 340 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 216.

Obsolete combinations

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Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
Emery, C. 1901k. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici, quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio tertia. Természetrajzi Füzetek 25:152-160. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Wilson, E. O. 1958g. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia III. Rhytidoponera in western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119:303-371. PDF

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