Wheeleripone

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Wheeleripone
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ectatomminae
Tribe: Ectatommini
Genus: Wheeleripone
Mann, 1919
Type species
Wheeleripone albiclava, now Holcoponera albiclava

This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Holcoponera.

Nomenclature

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

  • WHEELERIPONE [junior synonym of Holcoponera]
    • Wheeleripone Mann, 1919: 282. Type-species: Wheeleripone albiclava Mann, 1919: 283, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

  • Wheeleripone in Ponerinae, Ectatommini: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 642; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 736.
  • Wheeleripone as genus: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 642; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 736.
  • Wheeleripone as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 212; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1337; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 49; Bolton, 2003: 174.
  • Wheeleripone as junior synonym of Holcoponera: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.

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