Brachyponera atrata

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Brachyponera atrata (Karavaiev, 1925) valid

Euponera (Brachyponera) atrata Karavaiev, 1925b: 126 (w.) INDONESIA (Ambon). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: “a few workers” Indonesia: Amboina (= Ambon I.) 1912-13, Nr. 2762 (W. Karawaiew), and “more workers” Sulawesi, Boeton I., 1912-13, Nr. 2764 (W. Karawaiew). Primary type depository: SIZK. Type notes: 1) Kostyuk, 1976: 92, cites 4 worker, 1 queen syntypes Ambon (queen not mentioned in the original description), 3 worker syntypes Boeton in SIZK. 2) Radchenko et al., 2023: 17, cite 3 worker syntypes Ambon, 4 worker syntypes Boeton in SIZK.

Karavaiev, 1926d: 418 (q.)
Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 303.
Combination in Brachyponera: Wilson, 1958g: 347; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 80.
Status as species: Karavaiev, 1926d: 418; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 63; Bolton, 1995b: 303; Clouse, 2007b: 268.

Obsolete combinations

Euponera atrata

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.
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
Clouse, R. M. 2007b. The ants of Micronesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Micronesica 39:171-295. PDF
Karavaiev, V. 1925b. Ponerinen (Fam. Formicidae) aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. (Fortsetzung). Konowia 4:115-131. PDF
Karavaiev, V. 1926d. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. Treubia 8:413-445. PDF
Kostyuk, Yu. A. 1976. Katalog typov murav’ev kollektsii V.A. Karavaeva khranyashiesya v Institute Zoologii Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi SSR (chast’ 1). Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskogo Muzeya (Kiev) 36:91-106.
Radchenko, A. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Esteves, F. A.; Martynova, E. V.; Bazhenova, T. N.; Lasarenko, S. N. 2023. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 1. Dorylinae, Poneromorpha and Pseudomyrmecinae. Zootaxa 5244 (1):1-32. 10.11646/zootaxa.5244.1.1 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
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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