Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 25 valid species, 1 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
Euponera as genus:
Emery, 1901b PDF: 46;
Emery, 1909d PDF: 364;
Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 135;
Emery, 1911e PDF: 79;
Arnold, 1915: 63;
Forel, 1917 PDF: 237;
Gallardo, 1918c PDF: 64;
Wheeler, 1922: 648;
Borgmeier, 1923: 70;
Clark, 1934b PDF: 30;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 44;
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 63;
Bernard, 1953b PDF: 189;
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 256;
Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78;
Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Cameroon,
Central African Republic,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
Gabon,
Gambia,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Ivory Coast,
Kenya,
Madagascar,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Nigeria,
Rwanda,
Senegal,
South Africa,
South Sudan,
Sudan,
Tanzania,
Uganda,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe Asia: Borneo,
China,
Indonesia,
Japan,
Malaysia,
North Korea,
Singapore,
South Korea,
Vietnam Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Indomalaya,
Malagasy,
Palearctic Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records)
: Afrotropical,
Indomalaya,
Malagasy
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
Euponera |
nov. subgen.
|
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: 126, (download) |
126 |
6734
|
|
Eubothroponera bicolor |
n. sp.
|
Clark, J., 1930, New Formicidae, with notes on some little-known species., Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 43, pp. 2-25: 22-24, (download) |
22-24 |
6104
|
|
Euponera |
|
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: 81, (download) |
81 |
20597
|
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