Published December 31, 1979 | Version v1
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Ponera

Description

Genus Ponera Latreille, 1804

Ponera Latreille, 1804:178.

Type-species: Formica coarctata Latreille, 1802b.

This genus was radically revised by Taylor (1967) who showed that Ponera is distinguished from the otherwise similar Hypoponera by the consistent presence of subpetiolar tooth-like ornamentation as well as the two segmented maxillary palps. It includes about 30 small hypogoeic species mainly distributed in the Indo-Australian region but with representatives throughout the north temperate zone of which one only occurs in North Europe.

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 32

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Biodiversity

Family
Formicidae
Genus
Ponera
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus