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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Ponera
›
Ponera tenuis
Ponera
tenuis
(Emery, 1900)
valid
Cryptopone tenuis
Emery, 1900b
: 321, pl. 8, figs. 21, 22 (w.q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.
Primary type information:
Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of
Wilson, 1957b
: 373). Type-localities: Papua New Guinea: Lemien (
L. Biró
), and Papua New Guinea: Tamara I. (
L. Biró
). Type-depository:
MSNG
.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 1 paralectotype worker, 1 paralectotype queen. Paratype-depository:
HNHM
.
Lectotype designation:
Wilson, 1957b
: 373.
Combination in
Pseudocryptopone
:
Wheeler, 1933g
: 13.
Combination in
Ponera
:
Wilson, 1957b
: 373.
Status as species:
Emery, 1911e
: 88;
Mann, 1919
: 294 (in key);
Wheeler, 1933g
: 13;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 74;
Wilson, 1957b
: 373 (redescription);
Wilson, 1958g
: 342;
Taylor, 1967a
: 98 (redescription);
Wilson & Taylor, 1967b
: 25;
Perrault, 1993
: 337 (in key);
Dlussky, 1994a
: 53;
Bolton, 1995b
: 363;
Wetterer, 2002
: 128;
Wetterer & Vargo, 2003
: 416;
Wetterer, 2006
: 415;
Zhou, 2006
: 580;
Clouse, 2007b
: 270;
Zhou & Ran, 2010
: 110;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012
: 62;
Sarnat
et al.
, 2013
: 74.
Senior synonym of
Ponera huonica
:
Taylor, 1967a
: 98;
Bolton, 1995b
: 363.
Junior synonyms
Ponera huonica
Wilson, 1957
Obsolete combinations
Cryptopone tenuis
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
Clouse, R. M.
2007b.
The ants of Micronesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Micronesica 39:171-295.
PDF
Dlussky, G. M.
1994a.
Zoogeography of southwestern Oceania. [In Russian.].
Pp. 48-93 in:
Puzatchenko, Y. G.
;
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;
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Diakonov, K. N.
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Zakharov, A. A.
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1994.
Animal populations of the islands of southwestern Oceania (ecogeographic studies). [In Russian.].
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Emery, C.
1900b.
Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda.
Természetrajzi Füzetek 23:310-338.
PDF
Emery, C.
1911e.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae.
Genera Insectorum 118:1-125.
PDF
Guénard, B.
;
Dunn, R. R.
2012.
A checklist of the ants of China.
Zootaxa 3358:1-77.
PDF
Mann, W. M.
1919.
The ants of the British Solomon Islands.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391.
PDF
Perrault, G. H.
1993.
Peuplement en fourmis de l'atoll de Fangataufa.
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 98:323-338.
PDF
Sarnat, E. M.
;
Blanchard, B.
;
Guénard, B.
;
Fasi, J.
;
Economo, E. P.
2013.
Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island.
ZooKeys 257:47-88.
PDF
Taylor, R. W.
1967a.
A monographic revision of the ant genus
Ponera
Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Pacific Insects Monograph 13:1-112.
PDF
Wetterer, J. K.
2002.
Ants of Tonga.
Pacific Science 56:125-135.
PDF
Wetterer, J. K.
2006.
Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Niue, Polynesia.
Pacific Science 60:413-416.
PDF
Wetterer, J. K.
;
Vargo, D. L.
2003.
Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Samoa.
Pacific Science 57:409-419.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1933g.
Three obscure genera of ponerine ants.
American Museum Novitates 672:1-23.
PDF
Wilson, E. O.
1957b.
The
tenuis
and
selenophora
groups of the ant genus
Ponera
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PDF
Wilson, E. O.
1958g.
Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia III.
Rhytidoponera
in western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini.
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PDF
Wilson, E. O.
;
Taylor, R. W.
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The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
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PDF
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2006.
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PDF
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;
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