Dolioponera

Dolioponera
D. fustigera worker from Cameroon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Dolioponera
Brown, 1974
Species: D. fustigera
Binomial name
Dolioponera fustigera
Brown, 1974
Type species
Dolioponera fustigera

Dolioponera is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Ponerinae containing the single species Dolioponera fustigera.[1] The genus is known only from a few specimens from west and central Africa. Little is known about their biology, and males remain unknown.[2]

References

  1. "Genus: Dolioponera". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  2. Schmidt, C. A; Shattuck, S. O. (2014). "The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior". Zootaxa 3817 (1): 1–242. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1. PMID 24943802.

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