Ponera, Latreille, 1804

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), pp. 1-86 : 9-11

Synoptic species list of East Asian Ponera species

Distribution data are extracted from antmaps.org ( Janicki et al. 2016; Guénard et al. 2017). The record of P. tenuis from Guizhou by Zhou (2006) is here considered doubtful because this species is distributed in the tropical regions of Australasia, including New Guinea and North Queensland, and is thus excluded from the following list.

The records of P. takaminei and P. bishamon by Lin & Wu (2003) and Terayama (2004) in Taiwan are provisionally excluded from the Taiwanese fauna. The type localities of P. bishamon and P. takaminei are all located in the Iriomote-jima and Miyako-jima islands (Okinawa Prefecture), and though these islands are geographically close to Taiwan, we were unable to confirm their presence in Taiwan from recent sampling or through the examination of existing collections. Moreover, voucher specimens of these two species could not be located within Dr. Maromu Terayama or Dr. Chung-Chi Lins’ collections when examined by the first author (CML).

This synoptic list of East Asian Ponera contains 32 species. The 16 species from Taiwan and Japan are highlighted in bold. W = worker, Q = queen, M = male, ─ = previously described, x = examined in this study, √ = redescribed in this study, * = newly described.

W Q M

P. alisana Terayama, 1986 √ √ *

- China (Yunnan), Japan (Satsunan Islands), Taiwan

P. baka Xu, 2001a

- China (Xizang, Yunnan)

P. bawana Xu, 2001b

- China (Yunnan)

P. bishamon Terayama, 1996 √ *

- Taiwan, Japan (Kyushu, Okinawa Islands, Yaeyama Islands)

P. chapmani Taylor, 1967

- Oceanian region: New Guinea; Oriental region: Philippines

P. chiponensis Terayama, 1986 √ x

- Taiwan

P. diodonta Xu, 2001b

- China (Xizang, Yunnan)

P. guangxiensis Zhou, 2001

- China (Guangxi)

P. hubeiensis Wang & Zhou, 2009

- China (Hubei)

P. incerta (Wheeler, 1933)

- Australian region: Australia (Queensland); Oceanian region: New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago,

Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji); Oriental region: Philippines, Borneo, Malaysia, Singapore, Java

P. japonica Wheeler, 1906 √ ─

- China (Guizhou), Japan, South Korea, North and Eastern Russia, Taiwan

P. kohmoku Terayama, 1996 √ √

- Japan (Kyushu, Satsunan Islands, Shikoku, Tsushima Island)

P. longlina Xu, 2001a :

- China (Xizang, Yunnan)

P. menglana Xu, 2001a

- China (Xizang, Yunnan)

P. nangongshana Xu, 2001a

- China (Yunnan)

P. oreas (Wheeler, 1933)

- Philippines

P. paedericera Zhou, 2001

- China (Guangxi, Yunnan), India (Arunachal Pradesh)

P. pentodontos Xu, 2001a

- China (Shaanxi, Yunnan)

P. pianmana Xu, 2001b

- China (Xizang, Yunnan)

P. rishen Terayama, 2009 √ *

- Taiwan

P. scabra Wheeler, 1928b √ ─ ─

- China (Guizhou, Henan, Yunnan), Japan, North and South Korea

P. shennong Terayama, 2009 √

- Taiwan

P. sinensis Wheeler, 1928a √ *

- China (Guangxi, Hong Kong, Yunnan)

P. swezeyi Wheeler, 1933 x

- Africa ( Tanzania), Christmas Island, Fiji, Japan (Ogasawara Islands), Madagascar, Solomon Islands

P. szaboi Wilson, 1957 √ * - Oceanian region: New Guinea; Oriental region: Philippines

P. taiyangshen Terayama, 2009 √ * - Taiwan

P. takaminei Terayama, 1996 - Japan (Okinawa Islands, Yaeyama Islands), Taiwan

P. tamon Terayama, 1996 √ √ - Japan (Kyushu, Okinawa Islands, Satsunan Islands, Yaeyama Islands), Taiwan

P. terayamai sp. n. * * - Taiwan

P. wui sp. n. * * - Taiwan

P. xantha Xu, 2001b - China (Yunnan)

P. yuhuang Terayama, 2009 √ - Taiwan