Hypoponera

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 segme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collingwood, C. A.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 1979
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Hypoponera
Ponera
Ponera abeillei
Fennoscandia
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/6283713
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283713
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Summary: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°. 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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