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Genus: Odontoponera   Mayr, 1862 

Classification:

Current Valid Name:



Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 2 valid species, 2 valid subspecies

Fossil: 1 valid species

Odontoponera Mayr, 1862 PDF: 713 (diagnosis in key), 717. Type-species: Ponera denticulata, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Odontoponera in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 713 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 12 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 30.
Odontoponera in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 767; Forel, 1900f PDF: 314; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 135; Emery, 1911e PDF: 60 [subtribe Pachycondylini]; Forel, 1917 PDF: 237; Wheeler, 1922: 646; all subsequent authors.
Genus Odontoponera references
Roger, 1863b PDF: 18 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 437 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 12 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 82 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 30 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 72 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e PDF: 60 (diagnosis, catalogue); Creighton, 1929 PDF: 151 (infraspecific taxa, key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 67 (Asia checklist); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1051 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 298 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003 PDF: 165 (synopsis); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF: 119 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 267 (brief male diagnosis)
// Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Asia: Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Krakatau Islands, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Indomalaya
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Indomalaya, Palearctic

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Treatment Citation: Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776

III. OdontoponeraHNS n. g.

[[ worker ]] Der Kopf ohne Mandibeln viereckig, etwas laenger als breit. Mandibeln dreieckig mit gezaehntem Kaurande. Clypeus hinten zwischen den Stirnleisten spitzig auslaufend, der ganze Vorderrand gezaehnt, bogenfoermig. Fuehler zwoelfgliedrig; erstes Geisselglied so lang als das zweite. Augen rundlich, etwas vor der Mitte des Kopfes. Ocellen fehlen. Hinterkopf breit bogig ausgerandet. Thorax oben nicht eingeschnuert. Pro- und Metanotum mit zwei Zaehnen. Schuppe quer, oben zugeschuerft. Hinterleib ohne Einschnuerung Krallen einfach.



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