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Genus: Lioponera Mayr, 1879

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Classification:

Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Lioponera

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 76 valid species

Lioponera Mayr, 1879 PDF: 666. Type-species: Lioponera longitarsus, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Lioponera in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 17 [Ponerinae].

Lioponera in Pachycondylinae, Lioponerini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382.

Lioponera in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 162; Forel, 1900f PDF: 329; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 137; Emery, 1911e PDF: 11; Forel, 1917 PDF: 239.

Lioponera in Dorylinae, Cerapachyini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 765.

Lioponera in Cerapachyinae, Cerapachyini: Wheeler, 1902e PDF: 185; Wheeler, 1922: 639; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 657.

Lioponera in Dorylinae: Emery, 1896e PDF: 175 [Dorylinae]; Brady et al., 2014 10.1186/1471-2148-14-93 PDF: 4 (in figure); Borowiec, 2016 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF: 156.

Lioponera as subgenus of Cerapachys: Forel, 1892o PDF: 244 (in key).

Lioponera as junior synonym of Cerapachys: Brown, 1975 PDF: 19; Ogata, 1987a PDF: 129; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 34; Tang et al., 1995: 25; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 140.

Lioponera as genus: Mayr, 1879 PDF: 666; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 17; Emery, 1896e PDF: 175; Forel, 1900f PDF: 329; Bingham, 1903 PDF: 26; Emery, 1911e PDF: 11; Wheeler, 1922: 639; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 657; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 21; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 256; Borowiec, 2016 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF: 156.

Lioponera as senior synonym of Neophyracaces: Borowiec, 2016 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF: 156.

Lioponera as senior synonym of Phyracaces: Borowiec, 2016 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF: 156.

Genus Lioponera catalogues

Emery, 1911e PDF: 11; Borowiec, 2016 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF: 163 (species checklist); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 302 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).

Genus Lioponera references

Brady et al., 2014 10.1186/1471-2148-14-93 PDF: 4 (phylogeny); Borowiec, 2016 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF: 156 (diagnosis); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 300 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 135 (brief male diagnosis); Ramage et al., 2019 10.5852/ejt.2019.589 PDF: 8 (New Caledonia species key); Heterick, 2021 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245 PDF: 56 (Western Australia species key).

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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mayotte, Mozambique, South Africa, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
    Asia: Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
    Oceania: Australia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Palearctic
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Palearctic

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