Malagasy: Reunion > Ponerinae > Hypoponera > Hypoponera punctatissima

Species: Hypoponera punctatissima

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Distribution:

Reunion: La Possession, Le Port Known from all zoogeographical regions. In the Malagasy Subregion recorded from Madagascar (3 subspecies, not nominale).

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)

punctatissima. Ponera punctatissima Roger, 1859: 246, pl. 7, fig. 7 (w.q.) GERMANY. Forel, 1874: 92 (m.). Combination in Hypoponera: Taylor, 1967a: 12. Senior synonym of androgyna: Emery & Forel, 1879: 455, Seifert, 2003c: 69; of tarda: Dalla Torre, 1893: 41, Seifert, 2003c: 69; of kalakauae, mina, mumfordi: Wilson & Taylor, 1967: 29 (in text); of ergatandria: Smith, D.R. 1979: 1343; of mina: Taylor, 1987a: 30; of exacta: Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 71, Seifert, 2003c: 69; of jugata: Seifert, 2003c: 69. Current subspecies: nominal plus indifferens. See also: Emery, 1916b: 110; Wheeler, W.M. 1937c: 59; Collingwood, 1979: 30.