Protonym: Ponera punctatissima var. trigona
Authorship Mayr, 1887: 537
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL (Santa Catarina)
Primary type information Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Kempf, 1962b: 10). Primary type locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina (L. Hetschko). Primary type depository: NHMW.
Type notes 1) Kempf, 1962b: 10, warns “three workers, labelled “trigona” “Typus”, received from the Mayr collection (NHMW), represent three discrete species”. 2) Further syntypes from the original series remain in NHMW.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Hypoponera trigona Species Valid
Ponera punctatissima trigona Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Hypoponera trigona (Mayr, 1887)
Original combination
Ponera trigona Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Hypoponera trigona (Mayr, 1887)