Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 2 valid subspecies
Ponera sennaarensis Mayr, 1862 PDF: 721 (w.) SUDAN. Afrotropic. Primary type information: Type-material: holotype(?) worker. Type-locality: Sudan (“Afrika”): Sennaar (
M.C. Vienn.). Type-depository: NHMW.
AntCat AntWiki HOL Taxonomic history
Status as species:
Roger, 1863b PDF: 16;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 450;
Emery, 1877: 366;
Mayr, 1879 PDF: 662 (in key);
Emery, 1881b PDF: 528;
André, 1884f: 538;
Emery, 1892: 111;
Emery, 1892f PDF: 557;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 42;
Emery, 1893h PDF: 256;
Forel, 1894b PDF: 75;
Mayr, 1895 PDF: 125;
Emery, 1895b PDF: 177;
Emery, 1895g PDF: 337;
Emery, 1897f PDF: 597;
Emery, 1899d PDF: 474;
Mayr, 1904b PDF: 2;
Forel, 1907d PDF: 5;
Forel, 1907i PDF: 75;
Forel, 1910c PDF: 245;
Santschi, 1910c PDF: 350;
Stitz, 1910: 130;
Emery, 1911e PDF: 84;
Karavaiev, 1911b PDF: 3;
Forel, 1913a PDF: 108;
Forel, 1913b PDF: 307;
Forel, 1913i PDF: 347;
Santschi, 1914b PDF: 50;
Santschi, 1914d PDF: 318;
Arnold, 1915: 72 (redescription);
Stitz, 1916: 372;
Wheeler, 1922: 84, 777;
Stitz, 1923: 144;
Viehmeyer, 1923 PDF: 86;
Menozzi, 1930b PDF: 80;
Menozzi, 1931a PDF: 154;
Santschi, 1933b PDF: 96;
Santschi, 1935b: 261;
Santschi, 1937a PDF: 49;
Santschi, 1937d PDF: 215;
Finzi, 1939a PDF: 154;
Menozzi, 1939c: 99;
Menozzi, 1942a PDF: 166;
Weber, 1943d PDF: 298;
Eidmann, 1944 PDF: 469;
Bernard, 1950c PDF: 285;
Menozzi & Consani, 1952 PDF: 60;
Prins, 1963 PDF: 99;
Collingwood, 1985 PDF: 240;
Bolton, 1995b: 309;
Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 310;
Collingwood et al., 1997 PDF: 506;
Collingwood et al., 2004 PDF: 478;
Paknia et al., 2008 PDF: 155;
Collingwood et al., 2011 PDF: 408;
Hita Garcia et al., 2013 PDF: 221;
Wetterer, 2013a PDF: 13;
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 141 (see note in bibliography);
Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 49;
Sharaf et al., 2017 10.1080/00222933.2016.1271157 PDF: 51;
Sharaf et al., 2018 10.20362/am.010004 PDF: 33;
Madl, 2019 PDF: 16;
Sharaf et al., 2020 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.4.005 PDF: 554.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Benin,
Burkina Faso,
Cameroon,
Chad,
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Ivory Coast,
Kenya,
Mali,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Niger,
Nigeria,
Senegal,
Sierra Leone,
South Africa,
Sudan,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe Asia: Bahrain,
India,
Iran,
Oman,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia,
United Arab Emirates,
Yemen Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Malagasy,
Palearctic Native to (according to species list records)
: Afrotropical bioregion
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 14 times found in Cultives, 11 times found in Savannah, 3 times found in roadside desert 7pm, 7 times found in Savannah For., 7 times found in Agricultural (Cassava farm)+Grassland, Dominant tree- Cocos nucifera, 6 times found in Reserve Area (Tropical grassland), 4 times found in Urban (Resudential Area), 1 times found in Rocky brush along wash, 2 times found in date farm, 4 times found in Lydenburgia - Euclea Open Woodland (in Sekhukhune Mountain Bushveld), ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 9 times ground forager(s), 3 times on the ground, 1 times sitting under palm tree, 1 times ground nest, 1 times under stone, 2 times Sandy terr., 2 times on tree, 1 times Nest und. stone, 1 times Und.veg.on road border, 1 times Und. stone, 1 times Nest in soil, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 52 times Hand, 8 times Hand collected, 9 times Pitfall, 6 times Pitfall trap, 1 times light trap, 3 times search, 5 times Winkler, 2 times water traps, 3 times Preliminary, 2 times Malaise, 2 times Peanut Butter Bait, ...
Elevations: collected from 10 - 2163 meters, 433 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1909-01-01 00:00:00.0 and 2020-05-01 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: paratype of Euponera sennaarensis gibbonota: focol0971; paratype of Euponera sennaarensis recticephala: focol0972, focol0973, focol0974; syntype of Ponera sennaarensis: casent0902474, casent0915669; type of Ponera sorghi: focol0975
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
Australia