Heteroponera Mayr Reinstated

Brown, W. L., 1952, Heteroponera Mayr reinstated (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Psyche 59, pp. 70-70 : 70

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6577

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6286504

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scientific name

Heteroponera Mayr Reinstated
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Heteroponera Mayr Reinstated View in CoL   HNS (Hymenoptera: Formicidae   HNS ).

- Heteroponera Mayr   HNS (1887, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 37: 533) has remained suppressed as a synonym of Acanthoponera Mayr   HNS for many years. Wheeler (1923, loc. cit.) has shown, however that Acanthoponera   HNS can be split into two groups; one group { Acanthoponera   HNS s. str.) having the tarsal claws with an extra, strong tooth and a basal lobe (or tooth), while the second group (Anacanthoponera Wheeler) has the tarsal claws at most with a single, weak median tooth. In this second group, Wheeler included Heteroponera carinifrons Mayr   HNS , and since Heteroponera   HNS , with the genotype H. carinifrons   HNS , has precedence, it must be reinstated as a good genus. Anacanthoponera Wheeler (1923, Psyche, 30: 176, as a subgenus of Acanthoponera   HNS ) is a new synonym of Heteroponera   HNS , since the genotype, Ponera dolo Roger   HNS , is congeneric with H. carinifrons   HNS .

Acanthoponera   HNS is neotropical, and has well developed propodeal teeth and the petiolar apex produced as a long tooth or spine; Kusnezov (in litt.) finds A. mucronata   HNS to have 6, 4 palpal segmentation. Heteroponera   HNS is neotropical and Australasian, and the propodeal teeth and dentiform petiolar apex are absent or feebly developed; H. imbellis Emery   HNS has 3, 3 palpal segmentation (my dissection). Until more species can be critically examined, Acanthoponera   HNS and Heteroponera   HNS should be considered as distinct genera. Acanthoponera   HNS appears to be the most generalized living member of the Ectatommini   HNS , and is probably close to the stem from which the proceratiines, the myrmicines and Paraponera   HNS arose. - W. L. Brown, Jr., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

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