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Bradyponera
| Bradyponera | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Bradyponera Mayr, 1886 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera nitida, now Myopias mayri
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Myopias.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- BRADYPONERA [junior synonym of Myopias]
- Bradyponera Mayr, 1886c: 362. Type-species: Ponera nitida (junior primary homonym in Ponera, replaced by Trapeziopelta mayri), by monotypy.
- [Bradyponera Smith, F. 1873: viii. Nomen nudum, attributed to Mayr.]
- Bradyponera junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Snelling, R.R. 1981: 389 (error).
- Bradyponera junior synonym of Trapeziopelta: Emery, 1911d: 93 (provisional synonym); Donisthorpe, 1932c: 468.
- Bradyponera junior synonym of Myopias: Willey & Brown, 1983: 249].
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 164, Bradyponera as junior synonym of Myopias)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J., Ayensu, E. S., Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Wash (page 179, Bradyponera as junior synonym of Pachycondyla (provisional))
- Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10(10): 441-476 (page 468, Bradyponera as junior synonym of Trapeziopelta )
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125 (page 93, Bradyponera as junior synonym of Trapeziopelta [provisional])
- Mayr, G. 1886c. Notizen über die Formiciden-Sammlung des British Museum in London. Verh. K-K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 36: 353-368 (page 362, Bradyponera as genus)
- Smith, F. 1873. [Untitled. Introduced by: "Mr. F. Smith exhibited a further collection of ants sent by Mr. G. A. James Rothney, from Calcutta."]. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 1873:viii-ix. (page viii, [Bradyponera Smith, F. 1873: viii, nomen nudum, attributed to Mayr.] )
- Snelling, R. R. 1981. Systematics of social Hymenoptera. Pp. 369-453 in: Hermann, H. R. (ed.) Social insects. Volume 2. New York: Academic Press, xiii + 491 pp. (page 389, Bradyponera as junior synonym of Pachycondyla (error))
- Willey, R. B.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1983. New species of the ant genus Myopias (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Psyche (Camb.) 90: 249-285 (page 249, Bradyponera junior synonym of Myopias)