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Genus: Paraponera

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Subfamily: Paraponerinae Genus: Paraponera

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Extant: 1 species

Fossil: 1 species

Paraponera Smith, 1858a PDF: 100 Type-species: Formica clavata, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Paraponera in Poneridae: Smith, 1858a PDF: 100.
Paraponera in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 714 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865: 14 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 18.
Paraponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Forel, 1895b PDF: 111; Forel, 1899b: 10.
Paraponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382.
Paraponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 767; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 135; Brown, 1954e: 25 (in text); Brown, 1958g: 205; Kusnezov, 1964 PDF: 50; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 181; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 256; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1994: 164.
Paraponera in Ponerinae, Paraponerini: Emery, 1911e PDF: 27; Forel, 1917 PDF: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 641; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 681; Jaffe, 1993: 7; Lattke, 1994 PDF: 111.
Paraponera in Paraponerinae, Paraponerini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 48.
Genus Paraponera references: see above
Genus Paraponera references: see above

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Paraponera clavata View     Browse
Paraponera clavata_2 View     Browse
†Paraponera dieteri View     Browse
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