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Genus: Tetraponera   Smith, 1852 

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 87 valid species

Fossil: 7 valid species

Tetraponera Smith, 1852: 44. Type-species: Tetraponera atrata, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 173. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Tetraponera in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1877b PDF: 68.
Tetraponera in Myrmicinae, Pseudomyrmini: Forel, 1917 PDF: 240; Emery, 1921c PDF: 24.
Tetraponera in Pseudomyrminae: Wheeler, 1922: 654; subsequent authors to the following.
Tetraponera in Pseudomyrmecinae: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17; all subsequent authors.
Tetraponera as junior synonym of Pseudomyrma: Roger, 1863b PDF: 24; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 451.
Tetraponera as junior synonym of Sima: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 53; Bingham, 1903 PDF: 107; Emery, 1917a PDF: 95.
Genus Tetraponera references
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 453 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 25 (Sima diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 82 (Sima diagnosis); Mayr, 1868c PDF: 101 (*Baltic Amber species key); Smith, 1877b PDF: 68 (checklist); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 53 (catalogue); Emery, 1900: 17 (Asia & Australia species key); Forel, 1903a PDF: 708 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 107 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Arnold, 1916 PDF: 173 (Sima diagnosis, South Africa species key); Emery, 1921c PDF: 21 (Sima diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1921c PDF: 22 (Tetraponera (Pachysima) diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1921c PDF: 24 (Tetraponera (Tetraponera) diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 112 (Pachysima species key); Wheeler, 1922: 104, 107, 112 (Tetraponera, Viticicola, Pachysima diagnoses); Wheeler, 1922: 795, 801 (Afrotropical Tetraponera, Viticicola, Pachysima catalogues); Wheeler, 1922: 1014 (Malagasy catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 79 (Australia checklist); Wu & Wang, 1990 PDF: 516 (China species key); Dlussky & Radchenko, 1990: 120 (Vietnam species key); Ward, 1990 PDF: 470 (diagnosis, review of genus, phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 184 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 416 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 55 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 312 (Saudi Arabia species key); Shattuck, 1999: 208 (Australia synopsis); Zhou, 2001a PDF: 64 (China, Guangxi species key); Ward, 2001 PDF: 596 (Oriental & Australian, all species, revision, key); Xu & Chai, 2004 PDF: 64 (China species key); Ward, 2006 PDF: 120 (Afrotropical species groups key); Ward, 2006 PDF: 123 (Tetraponera ambigua group, key); Ward, 2009a PDF: 288 (Tetraponera grandidieri group, key); Dlussky, 2009 PDF: 1084 (Eocene amber species key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 128 (Taiwan species key); Bharti & Akbar, 2014a PDF: 46 (India species key); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 279 (brief male diagnosis); Ward, 2022 10.11646/zootaxa.5102.1.1 PDF: 1 (Afrotropical taxonomic review), 7 (list of Afrotropical species, Afrotropical species groups), 9 (species key (workers, queens)), 26 (Tetraponera allaborans-group, diagnosis), 39 (Tetraponera allaborans-group), 43 (Tetraponera ambigua-group, diagnosis), 44 (Tetraponera grandidieri-group, diagnosis), 45 (Tetraponera natalensis-group, diagnosis), 60 (Tetraponera rufonigra-group, diagnosis); Subedi et al., 2022 10.3126/jist.v27i1.46661 PDF: 94 (synoptic species list of Nepalese Tetraponera), 97 (key to Nepalese species (workers)).

Taxon Page Images:



Tetraponera clypeata nest inside the hollow thorn of an Acacia tree. The elongate form of these ants allows them to maneuver in such cramped quarters. St. Lucia, KZN, South Africa.
Image © Alex Wild. // Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
    Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Krakatau Islands, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Island, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Yemen
    Europe: Russia
    Oceania: Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Palearctic
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Palearctic

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Tetraponera   Dlussky, G. M. & Radchenko, A. G., 1990, [The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Vietnam. Subfamily Pseudomyrmicinae. Subfamily Myrmicinae (tribes Calyptomyrmecini, Meranoplini, Cataulacini).], [News of faunistics and systematics.], Kiev: Naukova Dumka, pp. 119-125: 121-122, (download) 121-122 21374
Tetraponera   Dlussky, G. M. & Radchenko, A. G., 1990, [The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Vietnam. Subfamily Pseudomyrmicinae. Subfamily Myrmicinae (tribes Calyptomyrmecini, Meranoplini, Cataulacini).], [News of faunistics and systematics.], Kiev: Naukova Dumka, pp. 119-125: 122, (download) 122 21374
Tetraponera   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: 104-106, (download) 104-106 20597
Tetraponera   Dlussky, G. M. & Radchenko, A. G., 1990, [The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Vietnam. Subfamily Pseudomyrmicinae. Subfamily Myrmicinae (tribes Calyptomyrmecini, Meranoplini, Cataulacini).], [News of faunistics and systematics.], Kiev: Naukova Dumka, pp. 119-125: 122, (download) 122 21374


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