Parvaponera
| Parvaponera | |
|---|---|
 | |
| P. darwinii worker | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Parvaponera Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 |
| Type species | |
| Belonopelta darwinii Forel, 1893 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 4 species | |
Parvaponera is a genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. The genus is distributed in Africa (and Madagascar), Southeast Asia, Australia and the Solomon Islands. Workers are slender and small in size. Queens are similar to workers, but larger and winged.[2]
Species
- Parvaponera cavimaculata Wang & Zhao, 2009
- Parvaponera darwinii (Forel, 1893)
- Parvaponera myropola (Menozzi, 1925)
- Parvaponera sheldoni (Mann, 1919)
References
- ↑ Bolton, B. (2015). "Parvaponera". AntCat. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ↑ 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.