Acanthoponera
| Acanthoponera | |
|---|---|
 | |
| A. minor worker from Ecuador | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Heteroponerinae |
| Tribe: | Heteroponerini |
| Genus: | Acanthoponera Mayr, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera mucronata | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 4 species | |
Acanthoponera is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Heteroponerinae.[2] Acanthoponera contains four rarely collected species and a fifth unnamed species mentioned by Brown (1958) only known from a stray gyne.[3][4]
Species
- Acanthoponera goeldii Forel, 1912
- Acanthoponera minor (Forel, 1899)
- Acanthoponera mucronata (Roger, 1860)
- Acanthoponera peruviana Brown, 1958
References
- ↑ Bolton, B. (2014). "Acanthoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ "Genus: Acanthoponera". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ↑ Brown 1958, p. 194
- ↑ Ketterl & Verhaagh 2004, p. 65
- Brown, WL. (1958), "Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera).", Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. 118: 173–362
- Ketterl, Jochen; Verhaagh, Manfred (2004), "Acanthoponera mucronata (Roger, 1860) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), first record in Peru and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with description of its male", Revista Peruana de Entomología 44: 65–68
External links
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