Taxonomic history
[Justified emendation of spelling to brounii: Forel, 1905d PDF: 353.].Combination in Acanthoponera: Forel, 1905d PDF: 353.Combination in Acanthoponera (Anacanthoponera): Wheeler, 1923f PDF: 183.Combination in Heteroponera: Brown, 1957k PDF: 112.Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 23; Forel, 1905d PDF: 353; Emery, 1911e PDF: 36; Wheeler, 1923f PDF: 183; Wheeler, 1935g: 10; Brown, 1958g PDF: 195, 262; Brown, 1958h PDF: 17; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b PDF: 102; Taylor, 1987a PDF: 29; Bolton, 1995b: 212; Don, 2007: 60.Senior synonym of Heteroponera brounii kirki: Brown, 1958g PDF: 195; Brown, 1958h PDF: 18; Taylor, 1987a PDF: 29; Bolton, 1995b: 212.
Heteroponera brouni is a species of ant in the genus Heteroponera.[1] It is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand, and the Three Kings Islands.[2]
Forel named it in 1892 to honor Major Thomas Broun, a significant pioneering amateur entomologist in New Zealand, but the name was mistakenly published as "brownii" (i.e. for "Brown" not "Broun", and with an incorrect second "i"). These errors were corrected by Wheeler (1923), who then also named a spurious subspecies "Heteroponera brouni kirki, later synonymised under H. brouni by W.L. Brown Jr. in 1958. Wheeler's correction was technically "informal" (not involving the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature), but all subsequent authors have accepted it.[3]
Heteroponera brouni is a species of ant in the genus Heteroponera. It is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand, and the Three Kings Islands.
Forel named it in 1892 to honor Major Thomas Broun, a significant pioneering amateur entomologist in New Zealand, but the name was mistakenly published as "brownii" (i.e. for "Brown" not "Broun", and with an incorrect second "i"). These errors were corrected by Wheeler (1923), who then also named a spurious subspecies "Heteroponera brouni kirki, later synonymised under H. brouni by W.L. Brown Jr. in 1958. Wheeler's correction was technically "informal" (not involving the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature), but all subsequent authors have accepted it.
