Species Ponera leae Forel, 1913
- Ponera leae Forel, A. 1913. Fourmis de Tasmanie et d'Australie récoltées par MM. Lea, Froggatt etc. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 49: 173-196 pl. 2 [174].
Type data:
Holotype GMNH W, TAS. - Ponera leae oculata Wheeler, W.M. 1927. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62: 121-153 [130] [non Ponera oculata F. Smith, 1858].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MCZ *W,Q, Norfolk Is. - Ponera leae norfolkensis Wheeler, W.M. 1935. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 11(11): 1-56 [13] [nom. nov. for Ponera leae oculata Wheeler, 1927].
- Ponera exedra Wilson, E.O. 1957. The tenuis and selenophora groups of the ant genus Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 116: 353-386 [364].
Type data:
Holotype MCZ *W, Arthurs Seat at McCrae, VIC.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Taylor, R.W. 1967. A monographic revision of the ant genus Ponera Latreille. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monographs 13: 1-112 [30 May 1967] [88]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
"Australia, Lord Howe Is., New Caledonia, New Zealand (introduced), Norfolk Island" (Jennings & Austin 2015).
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Closed forest, noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, terrestrial.
Extra Ecological Information
Nest in ground layer.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 23-Mar-2015 | VESPOIDEA | 18-Mar-2015 | MODIFIED | |
| 07-Aug-2012 | 19-Feb-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 07-Aug-2012 | 30-Sep-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 25-May-2010 | MODIFIED |