Genus Rhytidoponera Mayr, 1862
- Rhytidoponera Mayr, G.L. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: Abhand. 649-776 pl. 19 [731 pl. 19] [described with subgeneric rank in Ectatomma F. Smith, 1858].
Type species:
Ponera araneoides Le Guillou, 1841 by subsequent designation, see Emery, C. 1911. Hymenoptera Fam. Formicidae Subfam. Ponerinae. In Wytsman. P. (ed.), Genera Insectorum. Brussels Fasc. 118 125 pp. 3 pls. [37]. - Chalcoponera Emery, C. 1897. Viaggio di Lamberto Loria nella Papuasia orientale. XVIII. - Formiche raccolte nella Nuova Guinea dal Dott. Lamberto Loria. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 38: 546-594 pl. 1 [22 Nov. 1897] [548 pl. 1] [described with subgeneric rank in Rytidoponera Mayr, 1862].
Type species:
Ponera metallica F. Smith, 1858 by subsequent designation, see Emery, C. 1911. Hymenoptera Fam. Formicidae Subfam. Ponerinae. In Wytsman. P. (ed.), Genera Insectorum. Brussels Fasc. 118 125 pp. 3 pls. [38].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Brown, W.L. jr 1953. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part I. Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 11: 1-13 [20 Mar. 1953] [2]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
East Oriental Region; New Guinea; east Melanesia, New Caledonia and Timor in Australasian Region.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
History of changes
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| 07-Aug-2012 | 21-Feb-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
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