Cryptopone butteli

Cryptopone butteli
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Cryptopone
Species:	C. butteli
Binomial name
Cryptopone butteli Forel, 1913 Specimen Labels

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Micronesian Ants

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Indo-Australian Region: Indonesia (type locality), Micronesia (Federated States of), New Guinea, Solomon Islands.

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Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.

• butteli. Cryptopone butteli Forel, 1913k: 9, fig. C (w.) INDONESIA (Sumatra). Wheeler, W.M. 1933g: 10 (q.m.). Combination in Pachycondyla: Mackay & Mackay, 2010: 3 (by implication as Cryptopone synonymised with Pachycondyla); in Cryptopone: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 185. See also: Wilson, 1958d: 358.

References

• Clouse, R. M. 2007. The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Micronesia. Micronesica. 39(2): 171–296. PDF
• Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, S.O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa. 3817, 1–242 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1)