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Linked collectors and determiners for: Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)..
Natural history specimen data linked to collectors and determiners held within, "Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).". Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia by volunteer Scribes, <a href="https://bionomia.net/dataset/070112ba-15a4-4f95-a391-625075ec7d0f">https://bionomia.net/dataset/070112ba-15a4-4f95-a391-625075ec7d0f</a> using specimen data from the dataset aggregated by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org/dataset/070112ba-15a4-4f95-a391-625075ec7d0f">https://gbif.org/dataset/070112ba-15a4-4f95-a391-625075ec7d0f</a>. Formatted as a Frictionless Data package.
Supplementary files for Doré et al., 2025 - Evolutionary history of ponerine ants highlights how the timing of dispersal events shapes modern biodiversity. Nature Communications, 16(1), 8297.
<p><strong>### Research Article ###</strong></p> <p>This repository contains Supplementary files associated with this research paper:</p> <p><strong>Doré et al., 2025 - Evolutionary history of ponerine ants highlights how the timing of dispersal events shapes modern biodiversity. <em><span lang="FR">Nature Communications</span></em><span lang="FR">, <em>16</em>(1), 8297.</span></strong></p> <p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/XXXX">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63709-3</a></p> <p><strong>### Research abstract ###</strong></p> <p> Disentangling the drivers of global biodiversity patterns is a cornerstone of biogeography that remains elusive for many diverse biological groups. Here we present a complete species-level phylogeny of the ant subfamily Ponerinae based on new phylogenomic sequencing and taxonomic grafting. We combine results with a large-scale geographic database to explore the contribution of three main mechanisms in shaping global ponerine biodiversity patterns: time for accumulation, differences in diversification rate, and asymmetric dispersal. We show that extant ponerine ants originated in Gondwana, spread eastward across tropical bioregions, and more recently colonized temperate areas. The relative timing of colonization events was identified as the prominent driver of present-day biodiversity patterns, supporting the time for accumulation hypothesis. Conversely, differences in diversification rates and asymmetrical dispersal histories mitigated the heterogeneity in biodiversity by fueling accumulation of lineages in the least diverse bioregions. These findings suggest that tropical niche conservatism played a major role in shaping the biogeographic and evolutionary history of Ponerinae. Overall, we emphasize the importance of considering the relative timing of past dispersal events and variations in diversification rates over evolutionary time to gain a deeper understanding of Earth’s biodiversity patterns. </p> <p><strong>### Contents ###</strong></p> <p>This repository contains five sub-archives:</p> <p> - <em><strong>01_Supplementary_Data</strong></em>: <strong>Supplementary Data S1-S8</strong> of the article including metadata for voucher specimens, fossil calibrations, grafting information, geolocalized occurrences, biogeographic membership, bioregion adjacency matrices, and <strong>ready-to-use phylogenies</strong>.</p> <p> - <em><strong>02_Supplementary_Movie</strong></em>: <strong>Supplementary Movie 1 - Ponerinae Biogeographic History</strong>: Time-lapsed animation of ponerine ant biogeographic and diversification history.</p> <p> - <em><strong>03_Phylogenetic_inferences</strong></em>: Scripts and files used to carry out <strong>phylogenetic inferences</strong>.</p> <p> - <em><strong>04_Divergence_dating</strong></em>: Scripts and files used to carry out <strong>divergence dating analyses</strong>.</p> <p> - <em><strong>05_Other_analyses</strong></em>: Script and files used to carry out <strong>data curation, tree grafting, and biogeographic and diversification analyses</strong>. This is a release of an associated GitHub repository available at <a href="https://github.com/MaelDore/Ponerinae_Historical_Biogeography">https://github.com/MaelDore/Ponerinae_Historical_Biogeography</a>.<br> <br><strong>### How to cite ###</strong></p> <p>Please cite this research article as:<br> <br>> Doré, M., Borowiec, M.L., Branstetter, M.G., Camacho, G.P., Fisher, B.L., Longino, J.T., Ward, P.S., & Blaimer, B.B., 2025. Evolutionary history of ponerine ants highlights how the timing of dispersal events shapes modern biodiversity. <em>Nature Communications</em>, 16(1), 8297.<span lang="FR"> </span>https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63709-3.</p>
Data from: Strict monandry in the ponerine army ant genus Simopelta suggests that colony size and complexity drive mating system evolution in social insects
Altruism in social insects has evolved between closely related full-siblings. It is therefore of considerable interest why some groups have secondarily evolved low within-colony relatedness, which in turn affects the relatedness incentives of within-colony cooperation and conflict. The highest queen mating frequencies, and therefore among the lowest degrees of colony relatedness, occur in Apis honeybees and army ants of the subfamilies Aenictinae, Ecitoninae, and Dorylinae, suggesting that common life-history features such as reproduction by colony fission and male biased numerical sex-ratios have convergently shaped these mating systems. Here we show that ponerine army ants of the genus Simopelta, which are distantly related but similar in general biology to other army ants, have strictly monandrous queens. Preliminary data suggest that workers reproduce in queenright colonies, which is in sharp contrast to other army ants. We hypothesize that differences in mature colony size and social complexity may explain these striking discrepancies.
FIGURES 17–24 in Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURES 17–24. Full face and lateral view of body. Figs 17–18: Centromyrmex longiventris worker CASENT0178742; Figs 19–20: C. praedator worker CASENT0102928; Figs 21–22: C. raptor holotype worker CASENT0066716; Figs 23–24: C. raptor paratype queen CASENT0178746.
FIGURES 9–16 in Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURES 9–16. Full face and lateral view of body. Figs 9–10: Centromyrmex angolensis queen CASENT0417149; Figs 11–12: C. decessor holotype worker CASENT0178744; Figs 13–14: C. ereptor holotype worker CASENT0081171; Figs: 15–16, C. fugator paratype worker CASENT0178747.
FIGURES 1–8 in Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURES 1–8. Full face and lateral view of body. Figs 1–2: Centromyrmex bequaerti worker CASENT0005922; Figs 3–4: C. bequaerti queen CASENT006695; Figs 5–6: C. secutor paratype worker CASENT0178749; Fig. 7–8: C. angolensis worker CASENT0417147.
FIGURES 25–32 in Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURES 25–32. Full face and lateral view of body. Figs 25–26: Centromyrmex sellaris worker CASENT0066705; Figs 27–28: Feroponera ferox paratype worker CASENT0102994; Figs 29–30: Promyopias silvestrii worker CASENT0178751; Figs 31–32: Promyopias silvestrii queen CASENT0178752.
FIGURE 7. Phyrnoponera transversa holotype worker CASENT0178224 in The Afrotropical ponerine ant genus Phrynoponera Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURE 7. Phyrnoponera transversa holotype worker CASENT0178224: A, dorsal view of body; B, dorsal view of petiole; C, lateral view of body; D, full-face view of head.
FIGURE 6. Phrynoponera sveni worker CASENT0417555 in The Afrotropical ponerine ant genus Phrynoponera Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURE 6. Phrynoponera sveni worker CASENT0417555: A, dorsal view of body; B, lateral view of body; C, full-face view of head.
FIGURE 2. Phrynoponera gabonensis worker CASENT0178229 in The Afrotropical ponerine ant genus Phrynoponera Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURE 2. Phrynoponera gabonensis worker CASENT0178229: A, dorsal view of body; B, dorsal view of petiole; C, lateral view of body; D, full-face view of head.
FIGURE 1. Phrynoponera bequaerti worker CASENT0411278 in The Afrotropical ponerine ant genus Phrynoponera Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURE 1. Phrynoponera bequaerti worker CASENT0411278: A, dorsal view of body; B, lateral view of body; C, fullface view of head.
FIGURE 5. Phrynoponera pulchella paratype worker CASENT0178204 in The Afrotropical ponerine ant genus Phrynoponera Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURE 5. Phrynoponera pulchella paratype worker CASENT0178204: A, dorsal view of body; B, dorsal view of petiole; C, lateral view of body; D, full-face view of head.
FIGURE 4 in The Afrotropical ponerine ant genus Phrynoponera Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURE 4. Phrynoponera gabonensis male; CASENT0178740: A, dorsal view of body; B, full-face view of head; C, lateral view of body; D, oblique lateral view of genitalia; CASENT0178202: E, lateral view of fore and hind wing; F, dorsal view of petiole.
FIGURE 3 in The Afrotropical ponerine ant genus Phrynoponera Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURE 3. Phrynoponera gabonensis queen; CASENT0401945: A, dorsal view of body; B, dorsal view of petiole; C, lateral view of body; D, full-face view of head. CASENT0094797: E, lateral view of fore and hind wing.
FIGURE 1. Asphinctopone spp. full face and lateral view. A–B in The Afrotropical ponerine ant genus Asphinctopone Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURE 1. Asphinctopone spp. full face and lateral view. A–B, silvestrii worker, CASENT0178222; C–D, differens holotype worker CASENT0417143.
FIGURE 2 in The Afrotropical ponerine ant genus Asphinctopone Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
FIGURE 2. Asphinctopone spp. dorsal and lateral view of propodeum. A, C, silvestrii worker, CASENT0178222; B,D, differens holotype worker CASENT0417143. Note differences in pilosity and sculpture.
FIGURE 3 in Molecular phylogenetics of ponerine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)
FIGURE 3. Consensus phylogeny of Ponerinae inferred by MrBayes analysis of ALL_DATA matrix with CAD included for Harpegnathos, showing mean branch lengths. Most outgroups are not shown (the full tree including all outgroups is given in Supp. Fig. S1). Genus groups within Ponerini are demarcated by branch color and by the labels on the right. Branches are colored for the crown groups of all genus groups except Harpegnathos, whose stem branch is also colored to ease visualization. Clade support is indicated by solid (MrBayes BPP = 1.00) and empty (0.95
FIGURE 6 in Molecular phylogenetics of ponerine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)
FIGURE 6. Comparison of the inferred placements of Harpegnathos (HARP) in MrBayes analyses of (A) the ALL_DATA matrix with CAD 1nt/2nt excluded for Harpegnathos, and (B) the PONERINI_ONLY matrix with CAD 1nt/2nt excluded for Harpegnathos. Outgroups are not shown in A, and the tree is drawn as unrooted despite an inferred root location (indicated). The phylogeny in B is unrooted. Branch colors for genus groups are as in Fig. 3. Clade or bipartition support is indicated by solid circles (MrBayes BPP = 1.00), empty circles (0.95
FIGURE 5 in Molecular phylogenetics of ponerine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)
FIGURE 5. Phylogeny of Ponerinae inferred by RAxML analysis of the CORE_DATA matrix, with all of CAD excluded for Harpegnathos. Branch colors for genus groups are as in Fig. 3. Clade support and taxon labels are not shown except for genus group abbreviations. Numbers indicate alternative placements of Harpegnathos (bounded clade) evaluated with an SH test (inset table).
FIGURE 8 in Molecular phylogenetics of ponerine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)
FIGURE 8. Dated phylogeny of Ponerinae showing the geographic distributions of terminal taxa. All outgroups except Paraponera and Tatuidris are excluded. "NEO"/green: New World. "AS"/blue: Asia/Australia. "AF"/red: Africa/Madagascar.
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