Holcoponera

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Holcoponera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ectatomminae
Tribe: Ectatommini
Genus: Holcoponera
Mayr, 1887
Type species
Gnamptogenys striatula, now Holcoponera striatula

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Specimen labels

Synonyms

Identification

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Distribution

Distribution and Richness based on AntMaps

Species by Region

Number of species within biogeographic regions, along with the total number of species for each region.

Afrotropical Region Australasian Region Indo-Australian Region Malagasy Region Nearctic Region Neotropical Region Oriental Region Palaearctic Region
Species 0 0 13 0 0 27 1 0
Total Species 2840 1735 3042 932 835 4378 1740 2862

Biology

Castes

Morphology

Phylogeny

Ectatomminae
Heteroponerini

Bazboltonia  (1 species, 0 fossil species)

Acanthoponera  (4 species, 0 fossil species)

Heteroponera  (27 species, 0 fossil species)

Ectatommini

Ectatomma  (15 species, 1 fossil species)

Rhytidoponera  (104 species, 3 fossil species)

Stictoponera  (43 species, 0 fossil species)

Gnamptogenys  (32 species, 5 fossil species)

Typhlomyrmex  (11 species, 0 fossil species)

Poneracantha  (18 species, 1 fossil species)

Alfaria  (9 species, 0 fossil species)

Holcoponera  (40 species, 0 fossil species)

See Phylogeny of Ectatomminae for details.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • HOLCOPONERA [Ectatomminae: Ectatommini]
    • Holcoponera Mayr, 1887: 540 [as subgenus of Ectatomma]. Type-species: Gnamptogenys striatula Mayr, 1884: 32, by subsequent designation of Emery, 1911d: 40, Wheeler, W.M. 1911f: 165.
    • [Note: publication date of Emery, 1911d, is 9.ix.1911; of Wheeler, W.M. 1911f, is 17.x.1911.]

Taxonomic history

  • Holcoponera in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 23.
  • Holcoponera in Pachycondylinae, Ectatommini: Ashmead, 1905b: 382.
  • Holcoponera in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Emery, 1895j: 767; Emery, 1911d: 40; Forel, 1917: 236; Gallardo, 1918b: 21; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 643; subsequent authors.
  • Holcoponera in Ectatomminae, Ectatommini: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
  • Holcoponera as subgenus of Ectatomma: Mayr, 1887: 540; Dalla Torre, 1893: 23; Emery, 1895j: 767; Forel, 1895b: 113; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 135.
  • Holcoponera as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 211; Kempf, 1972a: 111; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1337; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 31; Bolton, 2003: 174.
  • Holcoponera as genus: Emery, 1896g: 43; Emery, 1902a: 181; Ashmead, 1905b: 382; Emery, 1911d: 40; Wheeler, W.M. 1913a: 79; Forel, 1917: 236; Gallardo, 1918b: 21; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 643; Borgmeier, 1923: 55; Santschi, 1929h: 437; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 651; Brown, 1956: 489; Kusnezov, 1956: 14; Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
  • Holcoponera as senior synonym of Mictoponera: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
  • Holcoponera as senior synonym of Rhopalopone: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
  • Holcoponera as senior synonym of Spaniopone: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
  • Holcoponera as senior synonym of Wheeleripone: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
  • Holcoponera references: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11 (diagnosis).
  • [Note: for references pre-2022 see under Gnamptogenys.]

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