Dinoponera snellingi
| Dinoponera snellingi | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Dinoponera |
| Species: | D. snellingi |
| Binomial name | |
| Dinoponera snellingi Lenhart, Dash & Mackay, 2013 | |
Dinoponera snellingi (named after Roy Snelling) is a queenless species of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. The species is known only from type locality in Campo Grande, Brazil.[1]
Description
Workers are unknown.[2]
Male specimens of this species are distinct in several respects. The combination of a bicolored body and head possessing bulging compound eyes and ocelli is unique to this species. More definitive is the shape of the aedeagus which possesses a large ventral lobe and finger-like serrated flange. The short broad digitus volsellaris with finely toothed basal lobe is distinctive, as well as the paramere shape.[2]
References
- ↑ Lenhart, Dash & MacKay 2013, p. 156
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lenhart, Dash & MacKay 2013, p. 152
- Lenhart, P.; Dash, S. T.; MacKay, W. P. (2013), "A revision of the giant Amazonian ants of the genus Dinoponera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)", Journal of Hymenoptera Research 31: 119–164, doi:10.3897/JHR.31.4335
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