Species Cryptopone rotundiceps (Emery, 1914)
- Euponera (Trachymesopsus) rotundiceps Emery, C. 1914. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calèdonie et des Îles Loyalty. 393-437 pl. 13 in Sarasin, F. & Roux, J. (eds). Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Zoologie. Vol. 1 No. 11. Wiesbaden : C.W. Kreidels. [397].
Type data:
Holotype BNHM *Q, Mt. Canda, New Caledonia. - Ponera mjobergi Forel, A. 1915. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(no.16): 1-119, pls 1-3 [Date published 4 Dec. 1915] [22].
Type data:
Syntype(s) GMNH W,Q, Blackal (=Blackall) Range and Mt. Tambourine (=Tamborine Mt.), QLD; ANIC W, Blackal (=Blackall) Range and Mt. Tambourine (=Tamborine Mt.), QLD
Comment: other syntypes may exist.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Brown, W.L. jr 1963. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part III. Some members of the tribe Ponerini (Ponerinae, Formicidae). Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 190: 1-10 [30 Sept. 1963] [6]
Generic Combinations
- Cryptopone rotundiceps (Emery, 1914). —
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): 1-242 [186]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Described from New Caledonia
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Closed forest, noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest in ground layer.
History of changes
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