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Genus: Bothroponera   Mayr, 1862 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

42 species, 7 subspecies

Bothroponera Mayr, 1862 PDF: 713 (diagnosis in key), 717. Type-species: Ponera pumicosa, by subsequent designation of Emery, 1901b PDF: 42. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Bothroponera in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 713 (in key) [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 13 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 35.
Bothroponera in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382.
Bothroponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 767; Emery, 1911e PDF: 75 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Wheeler, 1922: 648; all subsequent authors.
Bothroponera as subgenus of Ponera: Emery, 1895l PDF: 767; Forel, 1900f PDF: 325.
Bothroponera as subgenus of Pachycondyla: Emery, 1901b PDF: 42; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e PDF: 75; Arnold, 1915: 55; Forel, 1917 PDF: 237; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 628.
Bothroponera as genus: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 717; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 35; Bingham, 1903 PDF: 95; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382; Wheeler, 1918c PDF: 299 (footnote); Wheeler, 1922: 648; Wheeler & Chapman, 1925 PDF: 67; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 49; Bernard, 1953b PDF: 187; Taylor, 1987a PDF: 9; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 21; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 256; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78.
Bothroponera as junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Brown, 1973b PDF: 179 [provisional]; Snelling, 1981: 389; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Brown, in Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 166.
Bothroponera revived from synonymy: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 72.
Genus Bothroponera references
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 72 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Joma & Mackay, 2017 PDF 7: (sulcata species complex).

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Distribution:

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

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Angola, Ashanti, Bundibugyo, Burundi, Cameroon, Central, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern, Eastern Africa, Eastern Cape, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kabarole, Kakamega, Kenya, Kilifi, KwaZulu-Natal, Lindi, Malawi, Mali, Middle Africa, Morogoro, Mozambique, Mpumalanga, Nigeria, Northern Cape, Ogooué-Maritime, Oromīya, Pwani, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sudan, Tanga, Tanzania, Uganda, Wakiso, Western Africa, Western Cape, Zambia, Zanzibar Central/South, Zimbabwe
Indomalaya Region: Andhra Pradesh, Asia, India, Myanmar, Philippines, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, West Bengal
Malagasy Region: Anjouan, Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Comoros, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, Mahajanga, Toamasina, Toliara
Palearctic Region: China

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Pachycondyla   Clark, J., 1930, New Formicidae, with notes on some little-known species., Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 43, pp. 2-25: 11, (download) 11 6104
Bothroponera   Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 69-73, (download) 69-73 20597
Bothroponera   Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 127-128, (download) 127-128 6734
Bothroponera n. g.  Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 717, (download) 717 4445


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