Holcoponera 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 : 11

Holcoponera Mayr status revived

= Mictoponera Forel

= Rhopalopone Emery

= Spaniopone Wheeler and Mann

= Wheeleripone Mann

Type Species: Holcoponera striatula (Mayr)

Diagnosis (Females): Head wider posterad than anterad; mandible triangular with striae or rugulae on frontal surface; anterior clypeal margin convex; scape usually surpassing vertexal margin; eye slightly behind cephalic midlength; promesonotal suture frequently well marked, totally interrupting dorsal mesosomal sculpture; propodeal spiracle close to the declivous face of propodeum; propodeum unarmed; anterior prosternal process broadly concave medially; metacoxal dorsum always with a denticle or lobe; petiolar node high; anteroventral postpetiolar process relatively wide; second gastric segment only slightly arched ventrally.

Species: acuta revived combination, albiclava new combination, ammophila new combination, andina new combination, aspera new combination, aterrima new combination, atrata new combination, auricula new combination, avus new combination, bisulca new combination, brunnea new combination, crenaticeps new combination, cribrata new combination, dichotoma new combination, ejuncida new combination, epinotalis new combination, extra new combination, gentryi new combination, gracilis revived combination, haytiana new combination, ilimani new combination, latistriata new combination, lucida new combination, luzonensis new combination, major new combination, malaensis new combination, mina revived combination, moelleri revived combination, nigrivitrea new combination, pernambucana revived combination, pilosa new combination, pittieri new combination, pleurodon revived combination, porcata revived combination, preciosa new combination, relicta new combination, sila new combination, solomonensis new combination, striatula new combination, and strigata new combination (and the junior synonyms dammermani new combination, diehlii new combination, moelleri splendens revived combination, teffensis revived combination, teffensis concinna revived combination, emeryi revived combination, vidua revived combination, magnifica revived combination, striatula angustipleura new combination, arcuata revived combination, brasiliensis revived combination, brasiliensis calcarata revived combination, brasiliensis mayri revived combination, curtula revived combination, curutlum paulina new combination, curtulum stolli new combination, curtulum vollenweideri revived combination, emeryi recta revived combination, rustica revived combination, simplicoides revived combination, striatula angustiloba new combination, striatula antillana revived combination, striatula obscura new combination, wasmanni revived combination, wasmanni isthmica revived combination, wheeleri revived combination, concentrica new combination, satzgeri new combination, simplex revived combination, simplex spurium new combination).

Distribution: Neotropical, Indomalayan, and Australasian.

Notes: In the new classification proposed here the available name Holcoponera is resurrected from synonymy under Gnamptogenys to include most of the species of the striatula group sensu Lattke (1995), and the albiclava and epinotalis groups sensu Lattke (2004). The only species from the former striatula group not included in Holcoponera are lavra , lenis , and reichenspergeri , which were transferred to Typhlomyrmex in this study. The Neotropical species of Holcoponera can be identified using the work of Camacho et. al. (2020). Oriental species can be identified using the key in Lattke (2004).