Stictoponera Mayr, 1887

Camacho, G. P., Franco, W., Branstetter, M. G., Pie, M. R. & Longino, J. T., 2022, UCE Phylogenomics Resolves Major Relationships Among Ectaheteromorph Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A New Classification, Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1), pp. 1-20 : 12

Stictoponera Mayr status revived

Type Species: Stictoponera coxalis (Roger)

Diagnosis (Females): Occipital lobe present. Antennal club absent. Palp formula 3,2. Pronotum usually unarmed, occasionally with humeral projections. Mesonotum not prominent, forming a continuous line with the propodeum, separated by a transverse suture. Promesonotal suture absent to feebly impressed, never interrupting the dorsal mesosomal sculpture. Propodeal spiracle oval to rounded and separated from the declivous face of propodeum by a distance longer than its diameter. Apex of protibia without a stout seta close to the strigil base; apex of meso- and metatibia with two spurs; dorsum of posterior coxae frequently with a lobe or spine.

Species. bicolor revived combination, biloba new combination, binghamii revived combination, biroi revived combination, bulbopila new combination, chapmani new combination, coccina new combination, coxalis revived combination, crassicornis revived combination, delta new combination, dentihumera new combination, fistulosa new combination, fontana new combination, gabata new combination, gastrodeia new combination, grammodes new combination, helisa new combination, hyalina new combination, lacunosa new combination, laevior revived combination, leiolabia new combination, macretes new combination, meghalaya new combination, menadensis revived combination, nanlingensis new combination, niuguinensis new combination, ortostoma new combination, palamala new combination, panda revived combination, paso new combination, pertusa new combination, polytreta new combination, posteropsis revived combination, quadrutinodules new combination, rugodens new combination, scalpta new combination, sichuanensis new combination, sinensis new combination, sinhala new combination, taivanensis revived combination, toronates new combination, and treta new combination (and the junior synonyms banana new combination, bicolor minor new combination, borneensis revived combination, costata revived combination, costata pinealis revived combination, costata simalurensis revived combination, costata unicolor revived combination, laevior avia revived combination, kalabit new combination, menadensis obscura revived combination, parva revived combination, rugosa wallacei revived combination, spiralis revived combination, and stylata revived combination)

Distribution: Oriental region, into South-East Asia, including southern China, covering the Sundas and Melanesia all the way to Fiji, including the Philippines.

Notes: Our phylogenomic results suggest that the Indomalayan Stictoponera species represent a separate evolutionary lineage, not strictly related to the other Australasian lineages in the subfamily. We here resurrect the name Stictoponera from synonymy under Gnamptogenys in order to accommodate the species previously included in the coxalis , laevior , and taivanensis groups of Gnamptogenys ( Lattke 2004, Chen et al. 2017). These species comprise a well-supported clade forming the sister group of Gnamptogenys in the new sense. Its placement as sister to the former Gnamptogenys is congruent with Lattke (2004), who predicted it based on morphological features and morphological phylogenetic analysis.