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Genus: Tetraponera

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Subfamily: Pseudomyrmecinae Genus: Tetraponera

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Extant: 94 species, 19 subspecies

Fossil: 7 species

Tetraponera Smith, 1852: 44 Type-species: Tetraponera atrata (junior synonym of Eciton nigrum), by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 173. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Tetraponera in Formicidae, Poneridae: Smith, 1857a PDF: 70.
Tetraponera in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1877b PDF: 68.
Tetraponera in Myrmicinae, Pseudomyrmini: Forel, 1917 PDF: 240; Emery, 1921c: 24.
Tetraponera in Pseudomyrminae: Wheeler, 1922: 654; subsequent authors to the following.
Tetraponera in Pseudomyrmecinae: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17; all subsequent authors.
Tetraponera as junior synonym of Pseudomyrma: Roger, 1863b PDF: 24; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 451.
Tetraponera as junior synonym of Sima: Dalla Torre, 1893: 53; Bingham, 1903 PDF: 107; Emery, 1917a PDF: 95.
Tetraponera as subgenus of Sima: Emery, 1900: 673; Emery, 1915b PDF: 266; Arnold, 1916 PDF: 180; Forel, 1917 PDF: 240; Emery, 1921c: 24.
Tetraponera as genus: Smith, 1852: 44; Smith, 1857a PDF: 70; Smith, 1877b PDF: 68; Donisthorpe, 1916d PDF: 244; Wheeler, 1922: 654; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17; Ward, 1990 PDF: 470; Bolton, 1994: 184.
Genus Tetraponera references
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 453 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 25 (Sima diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 82 (Sima diagnosis); Mayr, 1868c PDF: 101 (*Baltic Amber species key); Smith, 1877b PDF: 68 (checklist); Dalla Torre, 1893: 53 (catalogue); Emery, 1900: 17 (Asia & Australia species key); Forel, 1903a PDF: 708 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 107 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Arnold, 1916 PDF: 173 (Sima diagnosis, South Africa species key); Emery, 1921c: 21 (Sima diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1921c: 22 (Tetraponera (Pachysima) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1921c: 24 (Tetraponera (Tetraponera) diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 112 (Pachysima species key); Wheeler, 1922: 104, 107, 112 (Tetraponera, Viticicola, Pachysima diagnoses); Wheeler, 1922: 795, 801 (Afrotropical Tetraponera, Viticicola, Pachysima catalogues); Wheeler, 1922: 1014 (Malagasy catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 79 (Australia checklist); Wu & Wang, 1990 PDF: 516 (China species key); Dlussky & Radchenko, 1990: 120 (Vietnam species key); Ward, 1990 PDF: 470 (diagnosis, review of genus, phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 184 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 416 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 55 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 312 (Saudi Arabia species key); Shattuck, 1999: 208 (Australia synopsis); Zhou, 2001A PDF: 64 (China, Guangxi species key); Ward, 2001 PDF: 596 (Oriental & Australian, all species, revision, key); Xu & Chai, 2004 PDF: 64 (China species key); Ward, 2006 PDF: 120 (Afrotropical species groups key); Ward, 2006 PDF: 123 (Tetraponera ambigua group, key); Ward, 2009A PDF: 288 (Tetraponera grandidieri group, key); Dlussky, 2009 PDF: 1084 (Eocene amber species key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 128 (Taiwan species key).
Genus Tetraponera references
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 453 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 25 (Sima diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 82 (Sima diagnosis); Mayr, 1868c PDF: 101 (*Baltic Amber species key); Smith, 1877b PDF: 68 (checklist); Dalla Torre, 1893: 53 (catalogue); Emery, 1900: 17 (Asia & Australia species key); Forel, 1903a PDF: 708 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 107 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Arnold, 1916 PDF: 173 (Sima diagnosis, South Africa species key); Emery, 1921c: 21 (Sima diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1921c: 22 (Tetraponera (Pachysima) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1921c: 24 (Tetraponera (Tetraponera) diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 112 (Pachysima species key); Wheeler, 1922: 104, 107, 112 (Tetraponera, Viticicola, Pachysima diagnoses); Wheeler, 1922: 795, 801 (Afrotropical Tetraponera, Viticicola, Pachysima catalogues); Wheeler, 1922: 1014 (Malagasy catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 79 (Australia checklist); Wu & Wang, 1990 PDF: 516 (China species key); Dlussky & Radchenko, 1990: 120 (Vietnam species key); Ward, 1990 PDF: 470 (diagnosis, review of genus, phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 184 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 416 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 55 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 312 (Saudi Arabia species key); Shattuck, 1999: 208 (Australia synopsis); Zhou, 2001A PDF: 64 (China, Guangxi species key); Ward, 2001 PDF: 596 (Oriental & Australian, all species, revision, key); Xu & Chai, 2004 PDF: 64 (China species key); Ward, 2006 PDF: 120 (Afrotropical species groups key); Ward, 2006 PDF: 123 (Tetraponera ambigua group, key); Ward, 2009A PDF: 288 (Tetraponera grandidieri group, key); Dlussky, 2009 PDF: 1084 (Eocene amber species key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 128 (Taiwan species key).

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