Ponera ruficornis

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Ponera ruficornis Spinola, 1851 incertae sedis in genus, unidentifiable

Ponera ruficornis Spinola, 1851b: 53 (w.) BRAZIL (Pará). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker (specimen consists of parts of 2 species). Primary type locality: Brazil: Pará, Belém, 1846 (V. Ghiliani). Primary type depository: MRSN. Type notes: 1) Emery, 1893j: 2, comments that the specimen consists of the head and prothorax of Dolichoderus sp., the rest of the body is Platythyrea sp. 2) Emery, 1911e: 30 (footnote) repeats this information but Brown, 1975: 9, refers Ponera ruficornis to Platythyrea as “nomen dubum et oblitum Emery, 1911e: 28”. 3) This compound specimen is probably best regarded as an unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Ponera.

[Also described as new by Spinola, 1853: 69.]
Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 99; Roger, 1860: 291; Mayr, 1863a: 450; Dalla Torre, 1893: 42.

Citations

Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1893j. Intorno ad alcune formiche della collezione Spinola. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Università di Torino 8(163):1-3. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Roger, J. 1860. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 4:278-312. PDF
Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
Spinola, M. 1851b. Compte rendu des Hyménoptères inédits provenants du voyage entomologique de M. Ghiliani dans le Para en 1846. Extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences de Turin (2)13:3-78.
Spinola, M. 1853. Compte rendu des Hyménoptères inédits provenants du voyage entomologique de M. Ghiliani dans le Para en 1846. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (2)13:19-94.

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