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Homonyms:

(Smith, 1876)

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2020)

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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Oceania: New Zealand
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Australasia

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 4 times found in mixed broadleaf forest incl. Beilschmidia tawa, 3 times found in broadleaf-podocarp forest, 3 times found in mixed forest, 2 times found in hardwood forest, 2 times found in mixed broadleaf forest, 1 times found in 2nd bush, 1 times found in broadleaf forest, 1 times found in closed forest, 1 times found in Nothofagus/Kauri forest.

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 6 times litter, 2 times log end withslime flux, 2 times old stumps and logs with fresh and rotten Ganoderma polypores, 1 times old logs withbrown-hymenium polypores, 2 times old logs with brown hymenium polypores, 1 times fungusy log, 1 times under stone, 1 times log end withslime flux and small white ganoderma, 1 times fungusy logs.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 10 times pyrethrin fogging, 6 times Winkler.

Elevations: collected from 115 - 500 meters, 354 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1958-12-06 and 2011-02-02

Type specimens: syntype of Ponera castanea: casent0915656; type of Mesoponera castanea var. striata: focol0965, focol0966, focol0967

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