Brachyponera bicolor

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

Catalog › Formicidae › Ponerinae › Ponerini › Brachyponera › Brachyponera bicolor

Brachyponera bicolor (Donisthorpe, 1949) unresolved junior homonym, junior synonym of current valid taxon Brachyponera croceicornis (Emery, 1900)

Ponera bicolor Donisthorpe, 1949b: 492 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 3 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, 22.vi.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: CASC.

[Unresolved junior primary homonym of Neoponera bicolor Guérin-Méneville, 1844a (Bolton, 1995b: 303).]
Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 68.
Junior synonym of Brachyponera croceicornis: Wilson, 1958g: 347; Bolton, 1995b: 303.

Obsolete combinations

Ponera bicolor

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
Donisthorpe, H. 1949b ("1948"). A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:487-506. 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

AntWeb AntWiki Google Scholar

Formicidae subfamilies Ponerinae tribes Ponerini genera Brachyponera species

show invalid