Euponera
| Euponera | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Euponera sikorae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Euponera Forel, 1891 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera sikorae[1] Forel, 1891 | |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 26 species | |
Euponera is a ponerine genus of ants distributed in the Afrotropics (including Madagascar) and eastern Asia. Workers are large (6–10.5 mm); queen are similar to workers, but larger and winged.[2]
Species
- Euponera aenigmatica (Arnold, 1949)
- Euponera agnivo Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera antsiraka (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013)
- Euponera brunoi Forel, 1913
- Euponera daraina Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera fossigera Mayr, 1901
- Euponera gorogota Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera grandis Donisthorpe, 1947
- Euponera haratsingy Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera ivolo Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera kipyatkovi Dubovikoff, 2013
- Euponera maeva Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera manni Viehmeyer, 1924
- Euponera mialy Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera nosy Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera pilosior Wheeler, W.M., 1928
- Euponera rovana Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera sakishimensis Terayama, 1999
- Euponera sharpi Forel, 1901
- Euponera sikorae (Forel, 1891)
- Euponera sjostedti (Mayr, 1896)
- Euponera tahary Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera vohitravo Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera weberi Bernard, 1953
- Euponera wroughtonii Forel, 1901
- Euponera zoro Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
References
- ↑ Bolton, B. (2015). "Ectomomyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- 1 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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