Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with the description of a new species from India

Abstract. Four species of the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804, are recorded from India. The present study reports one new species Ponera sikkimensis sp. n., a divergent population of Ponera indica Bharti & Wachkoo, 2012 and one new record, Ponera paedericera Zhou, 2001 from India. An identifica...

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Autores principales: Bharti, Himender, Rilta, Joginder Singh
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26487822
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.526.5971
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description Abstract. Four species of the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804, are recorded from India. The present study reports one new species Ponera sikkimensis sp. n., a divergent population of Ponera indica Bharti & Wachkoo, 2012 and one new record, Ponera paedericera Zhou, 2001 from India. An identification key and distributions for the four known Indian species of Ponera based on the worker caste are provided.
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spelling pubmed-46078422015-10-20 Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with the description of a new species from India Bharti, Himender Rilta, Joginder Singh Zookeys Research Article Abstract. Four species of the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804, are recorded from India. The present study reports one new species Ponera sikkimensis sp. n., a divergent population of Ponera indica Bharti & Wachkoo, 2012 and one new record, Ponera paedericera Zhou, 2001 from India. An identification key and distributions for the four known Indian species of Ponera based on the worker caste are provided. Pensoft Publishers 2015-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4607842/ /pubmed/26487822 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.526.5971 Text en Himender Bharti, Joginder Singh Rilta http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with the description of a new species from India
title Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with the description of a new species from India
title_full Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with the description of a new species from India
title_fullStr Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with the description of a new species from India
title_full_unstemmed Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with the description of a new species from India
title_short Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with the description of a new species from India
title_sort taxonomic studies on the ant genus ponera latreille, 1804 (hymenoptera, formicidae), with the description of a new species from india
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26487822
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.526.5971
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