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Genus: Prionopelta   Mayr, 1866 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

22 species

Prionopelta Mayr, 1866a PDF: 503. Type-species: Prionopelta punctulata, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Prionopelta in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 15.
Prionopelta in Amblyoponinae: Forel, 1893b PDF: 162; Forel, 1895b PDF: 110 [Amblyoponeridae].
Prionopelta in Ponerinae, Proceratiini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382.
Prionopelta in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1911e PDF: 32 [subtribe Typhlomyrmecini]; Forel, 1917 PDF: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 642.
Prionopelta in Ponerinae, Amblyoponini: Kusnezov, 1955b PDF: 275 [subtribe Ericapeltini].
Prionopelta in Ponerinae, Amblyoponini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 766; Wheeler, 1910a: 134; Brown, 1953c PDF: 11; Brown, 1960a: 173; all subsequent authors to the following.
Prionopelta in Amblyoponinae, Amblyoponini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 42, 156.
Prionopelta as senior synonym of Concoctio: Ward & Fisher, 2016 10.1111/syen.12186 PDF: 691.
Genus Prionopelta references
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 15 (catalogue); Forel, 1909a PDF: 242 (New World species key); Emery, 1911e PDF: 32 (diagnosis, catalogue); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 26 (Asia checklist); Wilson, 1958c PDF: 146 (Melanesia species key); Brown, 1960a: 173, 218, 221 (review of genus, Neotropical species key, Indo-Australian species key); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 210 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1335 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 39 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 64 (Australia & New Caledonia checklist); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 364 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 201 (Australia synopsis); Shattuck, 2008B PDF: 22 (Indo-Pacific species revision, key); Arias-Penna, 2008A PDF: 48 (Neotropical species key); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012 PDF: 16 (male diagnosis); Overson & Fisher, 2015 PDF: (Malagasy species revision, key).

Taxon Page Images:



Prionopelta humicola Kibale forest, Uganda.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Neotropical, Oceania bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Bundibugyo, Cameroon, Centre, Eastern Africa, Estuaire, Gabon, Gauteng, Ivory Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, Lindi, Middle Africa, Mozambique, Pwani, Rwanda, South, South Africa, South-West, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Western Africa, Woleu-Ntem
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Central, East New Britain, East Sepik, Guadalcanal, Madang, Makira-Ulawa, Morobe, New Caledonia, New South Wales, Northern, Northern Territory, Oceania, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands, Victoria, West New Britain, Western Australia, Western Highlands
Indomalaya Region: Asia, Borneo, India, Indonesia, Krakatau Islands, Malaysia, Perak, Philippines, Sabah, Sarawak, South-Eastern Asia, Taiwan
Malagasy Region: Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, Mahajanga, Seychelles, Toamasina, Toliara
Nearctic Region: Florida, North America, Puebla, United States
Neotropical Region: Alajuela, Alta Verapaz, Amambay, Amazonas, Americas, Aragua, Argentina, Atlántida, Belize, Boaco, Bolivia, Brazil, Canindeyú, Caribbean, Cartago, Cayo, Central America, Chiapas, Chontales, Coclé, Colombia, Comayagua, Costa Caribe Norte, Costa Rica, Cuba, Darién, Ecuador, French Guiana, Gracias a Dios, Guadeloupe, Guanacaste, Guatemala, Guyana, Heredia, Honduras, Izabal, Jinotega, Junin, Limón, Madre de Dios, Magdalena, Matagalpa, Mato Grosso do Sul, Meta, Mexico, Napo, Nicaragua, Nueva Segovia, Oaxaca, Olancho, Panama, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Petén, Puntarenas, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San José, Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz, South America, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Tucumán, Vargas, Venezuela, Veracruz, Zacapa
Oceania Region: Airai, Fiji, Melanesia, Micronesia, Micronesia, Palau, Pohnpei, Polynesia, Samoa

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Prionopelta   Brown, W. L., 1950, Morphological, taxonomic and other notes on ants., Wasmann Journal of Biology 8, pp. 241-250: 243-244, (download) 243-244 2360
Prionopelta nov. gen  Mayr, G., 1866, Myrmecologische Beitraege., Sitzungsberichte der Koenigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 53, pp. 484-517: 20-21, (download) 20-21 4365


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