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Anacanthoponera
| Anacanthoponera | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Heteroponerini |
| Genus: | Anacanthoponera Wheeler, W.M., 1923 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera dolo, now Heteroponera dolo
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Heteroponera.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- ANACANTHOPONERA [junior synonym of Heteroponera]
- Anacanthoponera Wheeler, W.M. 1923e: 176 [as subgenus of Acanthoponera]. Type-species: Ponera dolo, by original designation.
- Anacanthoponera junior synonym of Heteroponera: Brown, 1952h: 70.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 177, Anacanthoponera as junior synonym of Heteroponera)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1952k. Heteroponera Mayr reinstated (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 59: 70 (page 70, Anacanthoponera as junior synonym of Heteroponera)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 173-362 (page 194, Anacanthoponera as junior synonym of Heteroponera)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1923f. Ants of the genera Myopias and Acanthoponera. Psyche (Camb.) 30: 175-192 (page 176, Anacanthoponera as subgenus of Acanthoponera)