Fisheropone, Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014

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), pp. 1-242 : 89

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5117478
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scientific name	Fisheropone
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Species of Fisheropone

Only a single species has been described from this genus although at least one undescribed species is known. The described species, F. ambigua (Weber) , has been a junior secondary homonym of Pachycondyla ambigua André, 1890 and was replaced by Pachycondyla gulera Özdikmen, 2010 . However, as these names are here placed in separate genera the replacement name is unnecessary and becomes a junior objective synonym of F. ambigua Weber.

Bolton & Fisher (2011) discuss F. ambigua and consider it closely related to weberi ( Bernard, 1953) . However, an examination of type material (held in MCZC) of weberi (Bernard) support the placement of this species in Mesoponera rather than Fisheropone , and thus these species are not treated as closely related in this study.

F. ambigua ( Weber, 1942) View in CoL : South Sudan (comb. nov.)

References

Andre, E. (1890) Materiaux pour servir a la faune myrmecologique de Sierra-Leone (Afrique occidentale). Revue d'Entomologie (Caen), 9, 311 - 327.

Bernard, F. (1953) La reserve naturelle integrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hymenopteres Formicidae. Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire, 19, 165 - 270.

Bolton, B. & Fisher, B. L. (2011) Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi. Zootaxa, 2843, 1 - 118.

Weber, N. A. (1942) New doryline, cerapachyine and ponerine ants from the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 44, 40 - 49.