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[email protected] Published by CSIRO Publishing for CSIRO and the Australian Academy of Science www.publish.csiro.au/journals/it Invertebrate Taxonomy, 2001, 15, 589–665 Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera:Formicidae) in the Oriental and Australian regions Philip S. Ward Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Email:
[email protected]. Abstract. A revision of the ant genus Tetraponera in the Oriental and Australian regions reveals 33 species (18 new), belonging to four informal species-groups: allaborans-group (T. allaborans (Walker), T. apiculata, sp. nov., T. avia, sp. nov., T. bita, sp. nov., T. brevis, sp. nov., T. conica, sp. nov., T. connectens, sp. nov., T. crassiuscula (Emery) stat. nov., T. extenuata, sp. nov., T. microcarpa Wu & Wang, and T. modesta (F. Smith)); nigra-group (T. aitkenii (Forel), T. atra Donisthorpe, T. attenuata F. Smith, T. binghami (Forel), T. buops, sp. nov., T. difficilis (Emery), T. inversinodis, sp. nov., T. laeviceps (F. Smith), T. mimula, sp. nov., T. nigra (Jerdon), T. nitida (F. Smith), T. nixa, sp. nov., T. nodosa, sp. nov., T. notabilis, sp. nov., T. polita, sp. nov., T. punctulata F. Smi th, T. rotula, sp. nov., T. tucurua, sp. nov., T. vivax, sp. nov., and T.