Heteroponera Mayr 1887

Taylor, Robert W., 2015, Australasian ants of the subfamily Heteroponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): (2) the species-group of Heteroponera relicta (Wheeler), with descriptions of nine new species and observations on morphology, biogeography and phylogeny of the genus, Zootaxa 3947 (2), pp. 151-180 : 157-158

Genus Heteroponera Mayr 1887

See Bolton et al. (2007) for synonymy and taxonomic history. The generic epithets Paranomopone Wheeler, 1915 and Anacanthoponera Wheeler, 1923, are established junior synonyms of Heteroponera (Brown, 1952) . Heteroponera has been discussed by several past authors as a possible junior synonym of Acanthoponera Mayr 1862 .

Heteroponera may be identified in Australia using the keys of Hoelldobler & Wilson (1990), Bolton (1994) and Shattuck (1999), notably regarding distinction from the ectatommine genus Rhytidoponera . Note however that some small sympatric Rhytidoponera species (relatives of Rhytidoponera tenuis Forel —see Brown, 1958, Appendix: notes 15, 16, 27.) commonly present in North Queensland berlesates and other bulk samples which include H. relicta- group specimens, lack allegedly diagnostic supplementary teeth on the pretarsal claws, but are otherwise readily discriminated from Heteroponera .