Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 2 valid subspecies
Ponera transversa Smith, 1857a PDF: 68 (w.) SINGAPORE. Indomalaya. Primary type information: Type-material: 4 syntype workers. Type-locality: Singapore: “SINC. 55/9” (
A.R. Wallace). Type-depository: BMNH. Type notes: 1) BMNH Accessions Register says of these specimens: “1855 no. 9. Singapore (Malacca). Purchased of Stevens. Collected by Mr Alfred Wallace.” 2) A worker in OXUM, labelled “Sing. 5,” has been indicated as type by
Donisthorpe, 1932c PDF: 448. This does not appear to belong to the same series as the BMNH specimens and is provisionally excluded from the syntype series.
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Status as species:
Smith, 1858a PDF: 86;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 451;
Smith, 1871a PDF: 321;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 30;
Emery, 1893g PDF: 189;
Emery, 1893i PDF: 262;
Emery, 1895m: 458;
Forel, 1899j: 314;
Emery, 1900: 663;
Bingham, 1903 PDF: 73;
Forel, 1905f PDF: 7;
Forel, 1906b PDF: 92;
Forel, 1907h PDF: 17;
Forel, 1909i PDF: 221;
Wheeler, 1909d PDF: 339;
Forel, 1910d PDF: 122;
Emery, 1911e PDF: 60;
Forel, 1912e PDF: 97;
Forel, 1913l PDF: 7;
Viehmeyer, 1916a PDF: 113;
Viehmeyer, 1916b PDF: 285;
Wheeler, 1919f PDF: 52;
Santschi, 1920h PDF: 158;
Wheeler, 1923c PDF: 1;
Wheeler, 1924c PDF: 242;
Crawley, 1924a PDF: 383;
Santschi, 1924c PDF: 95;
Stitz, 1925c PDF: 111;
Wheeler & Chapman, 1925 PDF: 62;
Karavaiev, 1925a PDF: 81;
Mukerjee & Ribeiro, 1925 PDF: 205;
Wheeler, 1927b PDF: 42;
Wheeler, 1927d PDF: 1;
Wheeler, 1927h PDF: 84;
Wheeler, 1928c PDF: 5;
Santschi, 1928h PDF: 124;
Creighton, 1929 PDF: 152;
Donisthorpe, 1929a: 444;
Wheeler, 1929g PDF: 1;
Wheeler, 1929h PDF: 32;
Menozzi, 1930a PDF: 1;
Menozzi, 1930h PDF: 328;
Wheeler, 1930k PDF: 58;
Donisthorpe, 1932c PDF: 448;
Stitz, 1932b PDF: 733;
Menozzi, 1932d PDF: 4;
Karavaiev, 1935a PDF: 60;
Wheeler, 1937a PDF: 21;
Menozzi, 1939a PDF: 327;
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 67;
Collingwood, 1962c PDF: 224;
Baltazar, 1966 PDF: 246;
Onoyama, 1980a PDF: 196;
Radchenko, 1993a PDF: 79;
Bolton, 1995b: 298;
Wu & Wang, 1995a: 45;
Tang et al., 1995: 38;
Mathew & Tiwari, 2000 PDF: 282;
Zhou, 2001a PDF: 47;
Lin & Wu, 2003: 67;
Jaitrong & Nabhitabhata, 2005 PDF: 30;
Yamane, 2009 PDF: 4 (redescription);
Terayama, 2009 PDF: 104;
Mohanraj et al., 2010 PDF: 7;
Pfeiffer et al., 2011 PDF: 57;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 60;
Khachonpisitsak et al., 2020 10.3897/zookeys.998.54902 PDF: 153;
Wang et al., 2022 10.20362/am.015006 PDF: 131.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Asia: Borneo,
China,
Indonesia,
Malaysia,
Myanmar,
Nepal,
Philippines,
Singapore,
Thailand,
Vietnam Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Indomalaya
Distribution Notes:
Singapore, Myanmar, Philippines, China, Java, Vietnam
Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 4 times found in 2nd growth wet forest, 2 times found in mature wet forest, 2 times found in rainforest, 1 times found in secondary rainforest, 2 times found in wet forest, 1 times found in 2° wet forest, 1 times found in lowland dipterocarp forest.
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 2 times ex sifted leaf litter, 1 times foragers, 1 times Winkler extractor, 1 times strays, 1 times nest in clay bank, 1 times ground forager(s).
Collected most commonly using these methods: 8 times search, 3 times winkler, 1 times forest floor light intercept trap 8x, 1 times Malaise trap.
Elevations: collected from 10 - 1067 meters, 424 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1927-03-02 00:00:00.0 and 2017-10-19 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: Holotype of Ponera reticulata: casent0900665; syntype of Odontoponera transversa: casent0900666; Type of unpublished name: Odontoponera carli: casent0907214, casent0911207
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