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 .