Feroponera
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| Feroponera ferox | |
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| F. ferox paratype worker | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Genus: | Feroponera Bolton & Fisher, 2008 |
| Species: | F. ferox |
| Binomial name | |
| Feroponera ferox Bolton & Fisher, 2008 | |
Feroponera is a monotypic Afrotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae containing the single species Feroponera ferox.
The genus is known only from its type series of five workers from Cameroon.[1] The type series was recovered from an abandoned termitary of Cubitermes. The termitary was not occupied, and provides no evidence that the species is termitophagous, but the modified condition of the mandibles and clypeus implies that its diet is carnivorous and specialized.[2]
References
- Bolton, Barry; Fisher, Brian L. (2008), "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)", Zootaxa 1929: 1–37
External links
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