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Genus: Echinopla   Smith, 1857 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

32 species, 3 subspecies

Echinopla Smith, 1857a PDF: 79. Type-species: Echinopla melanarctos, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 162. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Echinopla in Formicidae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1857a PDF: 79.
Echinopla in Poneridae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1858a PDF: 197.
Echinopla in Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1862a PDF: 50.
Echinopla in Formicidae: Smith, 1862d PDF: 415.
Echinopla in Formicinae: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 652 (in key) [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 7 [Formicidae].
Echinopla in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c PDF: 367 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 272.
Echinopla in Camponotinae, Polyrhachidini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384.
Echinopla in Camponotinae, Camponotini: Forel, 1886h PDF: 199; Forel, 1893b PDF: 165; Emery, 1895l PDF: 772; Wheeler, 1910a: 144; Forel, 1912j PDF: 89; Forel, 1917 PDF: 251.
Echinopla in Formicinae, Camponotini: Wheeler, 1922: 701; Emery, 1925d PDF: 210; all subsequent authors except the following.
Echinopla in Formicinae, Formica genus group: Agosti, 1991 PDF: 295.
Genus Echinopla references
Smith, 1858a PDF: 197 (diagnosis); Smith, 1862d PDF: 415 (catalogue); Roger, 1863b: 9, 21 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 408, 428 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 7, 10 (Echinopla, Mesoxena diagnoses); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 65 (diagnosis); Forel, 1878c PDF: 368 (diagnosis); Emery, 1896j: 382 (catalogue); Emery, 1898a PDF: 231 (additions to 1896a catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 210 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 212 (Mesoxena diagnosis, catalogue); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 253, 256 (Asia Echinopla, Mesoxena checklists); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 122 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 24 (Australia checklist); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1049 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 183 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 95 (Australia synopsis); Xu & Zhou, 2015 PDF:7 (species groupings, catalogue, species key, distribution in China).

Taxon Page Images:



Echinopla australis, Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

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

Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Gulf, Maluku, Maluku Utara, Morobe, Oceania, Papua Barat, Papua New Guinea, Queensland
Indomalaya Region: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Asia, Borneo, Bukidnon, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Johor, Kalimantan Barat, Krakatau Islands, Laos, Malaysia, Meghalaya, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Negros Oriental, Nicobar Island, Pahang, Philippines, Sabah, Sarawak, Satun, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sulawesi Tengah, Sulawesi Utara, Sumatera Barat, Sumatera Utara, Thailand
Oceania Region: Melanesia

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Echinopla   Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum, pp. -1--1: 197, (download) 197 8127
Echinopla   Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88: 79, (download) 79 2588
Echinopla   Smith, F., 1857, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace., Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 2, pp. 42-88: 80, (download) 80 2588


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