Neoponera atrovirens

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Neoponera atrovirens (Mayr, 1866) junior synonym of current valid taxon Neoponera carbonaria (Smith, 1858)

Pachycondyla atrovirens Mayr, 1866b: 890 (w.q.) COLOMBIA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype worker(s), syntype queens (numbers not given). Primary type locality: Colombia (“New Granada”): Antioquia (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: NHMW. Type notes: In the original description Mayr notes “(Mus. Holm.)”, which may imply that specimens are present in NHRS.

[Also described as new by Mayr, 1870a: 397 (in key).]
Combination in Euponera (Mesoponera): Emery, 1901b: 47; Santschi, 1913h: 34.
Combination in Mesoponera: Kempf, 1972b: 141.
Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 303.
Status as species: Emery, 1890b: 72 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 33; Emery, 1911e: 82; Santschi, 1913h: 34; Kempf, 1972b: 141; Bolton, 1995b: 303.
Junior synonym of Neoponera carbonaria: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 228.

Obsolete combinations

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.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1890b. Voyage de M. E. Simon au Venezuela (Décembre 1887 - Avril 1888). Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6)10:55-76. PDF
Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp. PDF
Mayr, G. 1866b. Diagnosen neuer und wenig gekannter Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 16:885-908. PDF
Mayr, G. 1870a. Formicidae novogranadenses. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung I 61:370-417. PDF
Santschi, F. 1913h. Hyménoptères. Formicides. Pp. 33-43 in: André, Ern. et al. 1913. Mission du service géographique de l'armée pour la mesure d'un arc de méridien équatorial en Amérique du Sud. Tome 10. Fasc. 1. Insectes. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 119 pp. PDF

Extant: 0 valid subspecies (1 synonym)

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