Ponera exotica Smith

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 exotica Smith ( Figs. 5A, 5B , 6 )

Ponera exotica Smith 1962:378 , Fig. 1 . Holotype worker, paratype queen: United States, North Carolina, Craven Co., Croatan National Forest, 2mi E Croatan, 20 August 1960 (W. G. Carger #11; National Museum of Natural History , Washington, DC; not examined).

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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.

Fig. 1. Phylogeny of NewWorld and selected OldWorld Ponera, inferred using the program IQ-TREE and 1,782 UCE loci.Node support values (ultrafast bootstrap/ SH-like) are shown when <100/100. Insert boxes are portions of phylogram expanded as cladograms.