Genus Lioponera Mayr, 1879

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lioponera Mayr, 1879.

  Type species:

   Lioponera longitarsus Mayr, 1879 by monotypy.
• Neophyracaces Clark, J. 1941. Australian Formicidae. Notes and new species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 12: 71-94 [76 pl. 13].

  Type species:

   Phyracaces princeps Ckark, 1934 by original designation.
• Phyracaces Emery, C. 1902. Note mirmecologiche. Rendiconto delle Sessioni della R. Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna N.S. 6(1901): 22–34 [Date published 31 Dec. 1902] [23].

  Type species:

   Cerapachys mayri Forel, 1892 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280 [156]

Introduction

Borowiec (2016) revived Lioponera to include a number of species previously assigned to Cerapachys Smith, 1857.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Mulga Lands (ML), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS) ; NSW, Qld, WA: Gascoyne (GAS), Pilbara (PIL) ; NSW, SA, Vic: Flinders (FLI), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN) ; NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; NT, Qld, SA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Finke (FIN), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP) ; NT, Qld, WA: Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; SA, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Nullarbor (NUL), Tanami (TAN) ; WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Northern Kimberley (NK)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280

History of changes