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Selenopone
| Selenopone | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Selenopone Wheeler, W.M., 1933 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera selenophora
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Ponera.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- SELENOPONE [junior synonym of Ponera]
- Selenopone Wheeler, W.M. 1933g: 19. Type-species: Ponera selenophora, by original designation.
- Selenopone junior synonym of Ponera: Wilson, 1957: 356.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 170, Selenopone as junior synonym of Ponera)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943h. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [concl.]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 721-737 (page 725, Selenopone in Ponerinae, Ponerini)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1933g. Three obscure genera of ponerine ants. American Museum Novitates 672: 1-23 (page 19, Selenopone as genus)
- Wilson, E. O. 1957b. The tenuis and selenophora groups of the ant genus Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 116: 355-386 (page 356, Selenopone as junior synonym of Ponera)