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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Mesoponera
›
Mesoponera melanaria
Mesoponera
melanaria
(Emery, 1893)
valid
Ponera melanaria
Emery, 1893i
: 260 (footnote) (w.) SRI LANKA. Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker (one mandible missing). Primary type locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data), i.-ii.1892 (
E. Simon
). Primary type depository:
MSNG
.
[
Ponera melanaria
Emery, 1893h
: 242.
Nomen nudum
.]
Bingham, 1903
: 100 (q.);
Donisthorpe, 1942d
: 450 (m.);
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971b
: 1206 (l.)
Combination in
Euponera (Mesoponera)
:
Emery, 1900
: 668.
Combination in
Pachycondyla
:
Brown, 1995a
: 307.
Combination in
Mesoponera
:
Bingham, 1903
: 100;
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
: 111.
Status as species:
Mayr, 1897
: 422;
Forel, 1900f
: 326;
Emery, 1900
: 668;
Bingham, 1903
: 100;
Emery, 1911e
: 81;
Forel, 1911c
: 216;
Forel, 1913l
: 8;
Donisthorpe, 1942d
: 450;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 64;
Bolton, 1995b
: 307;
Tiwari, 1999
: 31;
Zhou & Ran, 2010
: 108;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012
: 61;
Bharti
et al.
, 2016
: 52;
Dias
et al.
, 2020
: 114.
Obsolete combinations
Euponera melanaria
Ponera melanaria
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
M. m. macra
(Emery, 1894)
Citations
Bharti, H.
;
Guénard, B.
;
Bharti, M.
;
Economo, E. P.
2016.
An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).
ZooKeys 551:1-83.
PDF
Bingham, C. T.
1903.
The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps.
London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp.
PDF
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1995a.
[Untitled. Taxonomic changes in
Pachycondyla
and
Neoponera
attributed to Brown.].
Pp. 302-311 in:
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W.
;
Capco, S. R.
1951.
Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia.
Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327.
PDF
Dias, R. K. S.
;
Guénard, B.
;
Akbar, S. A.
;
Economo, E. P.
;
Udayakantha, W. S.
;
Wachkoo, A. A.
2020.
The ants (
Hymenoptera
,
Formicidae
) of Sri Lanka: a taxonomic research summary and updated checklist.
ZooKeys 967:1-142.
10.3897/zookeys.967.54432
PDF
Donisthorpe, H.
1942d.
Ants from the Colombo Museum Expedition to Southern India, September-October 1938.
Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)9:449-461.
Emery, C.
1893h.
Voyage de M. E. Simon à l'île de Ceylan (janvier-février 1892). Formicides.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62:239-258.
PDF
Emery, C.
1893i.
Voyage de M. E. Simon aux îles Philippines (mars et avril 1890). Formicides.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62:259-270.
PDF
Emery, C.
1900.
Formiche raccolte da Elio Modigliani in Sumatra, Engano e Mentawei. Dummy reference.
Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 40[=(2)20]:661-722.
Emery, C.
1911e.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae.
Genera Insectorum 118:1-125.
PDF
Forel, A.
1900f.
Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part VII.
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 13:303-332.
PDF
Forel, A.
1911c.
Ameisen aus Ceylon, gesammelt von Prof. K. Escherich (einige von Prof. E. Bugnion).
Pp. 215-228 in:
Escherich, K.
1911.
Termitenleben auf Ceylon.
Jena: Gustav Fischer, xxxii + 262 pp.
PDF
Forel, A.
1913l.
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise nach Ostindien ausgeführt im Auftrage der Kgl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin von H. v. Buttel-Reepen. II. Ameisen aus Sumatra, Java, Malacca und Ceylon. Gesammelt von Herrn Prof. Dr. v. Buttel-Reepen in den Jahren 1911-1912.
Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 36:1-148.
PDF
Guénard, B.
;
Dunn, R. R.
2012.
A checklist of the ants of China.
Zootaxa 3358:1-77.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1897.
Formiciden aus Ceylon und Singapur.
Természetrajzi Füzetek 20:420-436.
PDF
Schmidt, C. A.
;
Shattuck, S. O.
2014.
The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior.
Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242.
10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1
PDF
Tiwari, R. N.
1999.
Taxonomic studies on ants of southern India (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 18(4):1-96.
PDF
Wheeler, G. C.
;
Wheeler, J.
1971b.
Ant larvae of the subfamily Ponerinae: second supplement.
Annals of the Entomological Society of America 64:1197-1217.
PDF
Zhou, S.
;
Ran, H.
2010.
Checklist of poneromorph subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in China.
Journal of Guangxi Normal University (Natural Science Edition) 28 (4):101-113.
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