Metapone

Metapone
Metapone emersoni worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Metapone
Forel, 1911
Type species
Metapone greeni
Forel, 1911
Diversity[1]
18 species

Metapone is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] The genus is found in the Indo-Australian, Oriental and Malagasy regions. Most species are known only from a few specimens.[3]

Species

  • Metapone bakeri Wheeler, 1916
  • Metapone emersoni Gregg, 1958
  • Metapone gracilis Wheeler, 1935
  • Metapone greeni Forel, 1911
  • Metapone hewitti Wheeler, 1919
  • Metapone jacobsoni Crawley, 1924
  • Metapone johni Karavaiev, 1933
  • Metapone krombeini Smith, 1947
  • Metapone leae Wheeler, 1919
  • Metapone madagascarica Gregg, 1958
  • Metapone mjobergi Forel, 1915
  • Metapone nicobarensis Tiwari & Jonathan, 1986
  • Metapone quadridentata Eguchi, 1998
  • Metapone sauteri Forel, 1912
  • Metapone tillyardi Wheeler, 1919
  • Metapone tricolor McAreavey, 1949
  • Metapone truki Smith, 1953
  • Metapone vincimus Alpert, 2007

References

  1. ↑ Bolton, B. (2015). "Metapone". AntCat. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Genus: Metapone". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Alpert, G. D. (2007). "A review of the ant genus Metapone Forel from Madagascar", pp. 8-18. In Snelling, R. R., B. L. Fisher, and P. S. Ward (eds). Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E. O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80.

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