Published December 31, 1979 | Version v1
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Hypoponera

Description

Genus Hypoponera Santschi, 1938

Hypoponera Santschi, 1938: 79; Taylor, 1967:9, stat. n.

Type-species: Ponera abeillei Andre, 1881.

Hypoponera was split off by Santschi (1938) as a subgenus of Ponera and was subsequently given full generic status by Taylor (1967). It is characterised by the one segmented maxillary palp and absence of ventral ornamentation on the petiole. The genus includes a large number of small hypogoeic species occurring throughout the tropics with four species in South Europe of which only one occurs north of latitude 47°.

Notes

Published as part of Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., pp. 1-174 in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8 on page 30

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Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Hypoponera
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
abeillei
Taxon rank
genus