Species: Odontoponera denticulata

Current Valid Name:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Ponera denticulata Smith, 1858a PDF: 90, pl. 6, figs. 13, 14 (q.) SINGAPORE. Indomalaya. Primary type information: Type-material: holotype queen. Type-locality: South Africa: Cape of Good Hope, “?C.G.Hope” on label. Locality in error (Donisthorpe, 1943g: 677), specimen mislabelled. Type-locality Singapore after Donisthorpe, 1943g: 677. Type-depository: BMNH. Type-specimen: CASENT0900664. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Roger, 1861a PDF: 12 (w.); Wachkoo et al., 2020 10.31184/M00138908.1564.4049 PDF: 249 (m.)

Combination in Odontoponera: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 717

Junior synonym of Odontoponera transversa: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 30; Forel, 1900f PDF: 314; Emery, 1911e PDF: 60; Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 166; Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 52; Creighton, 1929 PDF: 152; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 677; Bolton, 1995b: 298; Zhou, 2001a PDF: 47.

Status as species: Roger, 1861a PDF: 12; Mayr, 1862 PDF: 717; Roger, 1863b PDF: 18; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 437; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 65; Mayr, 1867a PDF: 82 (redescription); Mayr, 1872 PDF: 149; Forel, 1886d PDF: 246; Emery, 1887f PDF: 435; Emery, 1889: 497; Baltazar, 1966 PDF: 245; Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005 PDF: 30; Yamane, 2009 PDF: 5 (redescription); Pfeiffer et al., 2011 PDF: 57; Liu et al., 2015 PDF: 42; Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 53; Jaitrong et al., 2016 PDF: 42; Rasheed et al., 2019 10.13102/sociobiology.v66i3.4330 PDF: 435; Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020 10.3897/zookeys.998.54902 PDF: 152; Wachkoo et al., 2020 10.31184/M00138908.1564.4049 PDF: 246 (redescription); Wang et al., 2022 10.20362/am.015006 PDF: 130.

Senior synonym of Odontoponera reticulata: Yamane, 2009 PDF: 7 (in text).

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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Asia: Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Krakatau Islands, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Indomalaya

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Treatment Citation: Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776

1. O. denticulataHNS Smith.

Batavia (Novara).

Specimen Habitat Summary

Found most commonly in these habitats: 9 times found in 2nd Generation Rubber plantation, 8 times found in Rubber plantation, 7 times found in rain forest, 4 times found in secondary rain forest, 1 times found in Brtam palm litter, 2 times found in rainforest, 3 times found in limestone rain forest, 3 times found in Old rain forest, 2 times found in Botanical garden, 1 times found in Botanical garden rubber plantation, ...

Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 1 times Brtam palm litter, 3 times Foraging, 1 times pitfall trap (fruit), 2 times ground foragers, 1 times ground forager, 1 times on Saccharum, 1 times at bait.

Collected most commonly using these methods: 21 times Random coll. Winkler sifting, 11 times m2 Winkler sifting, 9 times Hand collection, 1 times Berlese, 3 times Hand, 1 times search, 1 times pitfall, 1 times bait, 1 times Random coll. Winkler sifting,.

Elevations: collected from 49 - 840 meters, 579 meters average

Collect Date Range: collected between 1945-04-01 00:00:00.0 and 2022-08-08 00:00:00.0

Type specimens: Holotype of Odontoponera denticulata: casent0900664; Not Provided: casent0715693, casent0715694, casent0715695, casent0715696, casent0715697, casent0715698, casent0715699, casent0715700, casent0715701, casent0715702, casent0715703, casent0715704, casent0715705, casent0715706, casent0715707, casent0715708, casent0715709, casent0715710, casent0715711, casent0715712, casent0715713, casent0715714, casent0715715, casent0715716, casent0715717, casent0716509, casent0716510, casent0716511, casent0716512, casent0716513, casent0716514, casent0716515, casent0716516, casent0716517, casent0716518, casent0717230, casent0717231, casent0717232, casent0717233, casent0717234, casent0717235, casent0717236, casent0717237, casent0717238, casent0717239, casent0717240, casent0717241, casent0717242, casent0717243, casent0717244, casent0717245, casent0717246, casent0735799, casent0735800, casent0735801

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Species: Odontoponera denticulata (Smith, 1858)

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