Taxonomic history
[Also described as new by Spinola, 1853: 69.].Status as species: Smith, 1858a PDF: 99; Roger, 1860 PDF: 291; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 450; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 42.[Note: Emery, 1893j PDF: 2, comments that the specimen consists of the head and prothorax of Dolichoderus sp., the rest of the body is Platythyrea sp. Emery, 1911e PDF: 30 (footnote) repeats this information. Brown, 1975 PDF: 9, refers Ponera ruficornis to Platythyrea: as “nomen dubum et oblitum Emery, 1911e PDF: 28.” This compound specimen is probably best regarded as an unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Ponera.].Ponera ruficornis, Spin. Mem. Accad. Torino, xiii. 69.51 (1853).
Hab. Brazil (Para).
This species is about the same size as the Ponera contracta of Europe, which it also closely resembles.
