Ponera pennsylvanica Buckley, 1866

Branstetter, Michael G. & Longino, John T., 2019, Ultra-Conserved Element Phylogenomics of New World Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Illuminates the Origin and Phylogeographic History of the Endemic Exotic Ant Ponera exotica, Insect Systematics and Diversity 3 (2019), No. 1, pp. 1-13 : 9

Ponera pennsylvanica Buckley ( Figs. 5C, 5D , 6 )

Ponera pennsylvanica Buckley 1866:171 . Based on the worker caste, but no types are known to exist ( Taylor 1967). Emery 1895a:267: description of queen, male. Wheeler and Wheeler 1952:631: description of larva. Emery 1895:267, Dennis 1938:227, Creighton 1950:48: as subspecies of P. coarctata . Taylor 1967:29: revived status as species.

Figures

Fig. 5. Images of face and profile views of New World Ponera. (A) P. exotica worker (CASENT0603539, Mexico, Chiapas). (B) P. exotica ergatoid queen (CASENT0603538, Mexico, Chiapas). (C) P. pennsylvanica worker (CASENT0003322, United States, North Carolina). (D) P. pennsylvanica ergatoid queen (CASENT0645791, United States,Virginia). All face views are to same scale, and all profile views are to same scale. Images for A, B, and C from www.antweb. org (A and B by April Noble).

Fig. 6. Distribution of New World Ponera. Occurrence records (black dots) are a combination of specimens examined by the authors, records on AntWeb (www. antweb.org), and records on BOLD (www.boldsystems.org). Green dots are additional records of P. exotica from MacKay and Anderson (1991) that extend the range, but were not examined by us.