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Taxonomic revision of the genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan and Japan, with a key to East Asian species

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Leong, Chi-Man, Guénard, Benoit, Shiao, Shiuh-Feng, Lin, Chung-Chi (2019): Taxonomic revision of the genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Taiwan and Japan, with a key to East Asian species. Zootaxa 4594 (1): 1-86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4594.1.1

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