Hypoponera villiersi

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

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Hypoponera villiersi (Bernard, 1953) junior synonym of current valid taxon Hypoponera dulcis (Forel, 1907)

Ponera (Hypoponera) villiersi Bernard, 1953b: 206, fig. 3G (w.) GUINEA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker (teneral). Primary type locality: Guinea (“French Guinea”): NE slope Mt Nimba, ix.1946 (A. Villiers). Primary type depository: MNHN.

Combination in Hypoponera: Bolton, 1995b: 216
Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 216.
Junior synonym of Hypoponera dulcis: Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 43

Obsolete combinations

Ponera villiersi

Citations

Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B.; Fisher, B. L. 2011. Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2843:1-118. PDF

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