Genus: Simopone

Name Status: Valid Name

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Cerapachyinae Genus: Simopone

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

38 species

Simopone Forel, 1891c PDF: 139 Type-species: Simopone grandidieri, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Simopone in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 17.

Simopone in Dorylinae, Cerapachyini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 765.

Simopone in Dorylinae, Cylindromyrmecini: Emery, 1901b PDF: 34.

Simopone in Ponerinae, Leptogenyini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382.

Simopone in Ponerinae, Cylindromyrmecini: Emery, 1911e PDF: 15; Arnold, 1915: 20; Forel, 1917 PDF: 239; Wheeler, 1922: 640; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 726; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 25.

Simopone in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 162; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 137 [subtribe Cylindromyrmecini]; Brown, 1975: 18; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10.

Simopone in Cerapachyinae, Cerapachyini: Wheeler, 1902e PDF: 185; Bolton, 1990a PDF: 67; Bolton, 1990c PDF: 1357; Bolton, 1994: 19; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 34.

Simopone as subgenus of Cerapachys: Forel, 1892o: 243.

Simopone as genus: Forel, 1891c PDF: 139; Dalla Torre, 1893: 17; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 137; Emery, 1911e PDF: 15; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 726; Brown, 1975: 35; all subsequent authors.

Genus Simopone references

Dalla Torre, 1893: 17 (catalogue); Emery, 1911e PDF: 15 (diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 20 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 757, 1005 (Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 25 (Asia checklist); Brown, 1975: 35 (diagnosis, Afrotropical species key); Radchenko, 1993c PDF: 47 (Indo-Australian species key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 383 (catalogue); Bolton & Fisher, 2012 PDF: 15, 17; 42, 70. (diagnosis, all species revision; Afrotropical workers, queens keys; Malagasy workers, males keys, respectively).

Genus Simopone references