Acanthoponera

Acanthoponera is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Heteroponerinae.[2] Acanthoponera contains four rarely collected species and a fifth unnamed species mentioned by Brown (1958) only known from a stray gyne.[3][4]

Acanthoponera
A. minor worker from Ecuador
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Acanthoponera

Mayr, 1862
Type species
Ponera mucronata
Diversity[1]
4 species

Species

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References

  1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Acanthoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  2. "Genus: Acanthoponera". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  3. Brown 1958, p. 194
  4. Ketterl & Verhaagh 2004, p. 65
  • Brown, WL. (1958), "Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera).", Bull. Mus. comp. Zool., 118: 173–362
  • Ketterl, Jochen; Verhaagh, Manfred (2004), "Acanthoponera mucronata (Roger, 1860) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), first record in Peru and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with description of its male", Revista Peruana de Entomología, 44: 65–68


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