Bothroponera

Bothroponera is a genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. It is distributed in Africa and Asia.[2]

Bothroponera
B. cambouei worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Formicidae
Subfamily:
Ponerinae
Tribe:
Ponerini
Genus:
Bothroponera

Mayr, 1862[1]
Type species
Ponera pumicosa
Roger, 1860
Diversity[2]
37 species

Species
  • Bothroponera cambouei Forel, 1891
  • Bothroponera cariosa Emery, 1895
  • Bothroponera cavernosa (Roger, 1860)
  • Bothroponera comorensis (André, 1887)
  • Bothroponera crassa (Emery, 1877)
  • Bothroponera cribrata (Santschi, 1910)
  • Bothroponera fugax (Forel, 1907)
  • Bothroponera glabripes Emery, 1893
  • Bothroponera granosa (Roger, 1860)
  • Bothroponera henryi (Donisthorpe, 1942)
  • Bothroponera kenyensis Santschi, 1937
  • Bothroponera kruegeri (Forel, 1910)
  • Bothroponera laevissima (Arnold, 1915)
  • Bothroponera lamottei Bernard, 1953
  • Bothroponera masoala (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013)
  • Bothroponera mlanjiensis Arnold, 1946
  • Bothroponera pachyderma (Emery, 1901)
  • Bothroponera perroti Forel, 1891
  • Bothroponera picardi (Forel, 1901)
  • Bothroponera planicornis (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013)
  • Bothroponera pumicosa (Roger, 1860)
  • Bothroponera rubescens Santschi, 1937
  • Bothroponera rubiginosa (Emery, 1889)
  • Bothroponera sanguinea (Santschi, 1920)
  • Bothroponera silvestrii (Santschi, 1914)
  • Bothroponera soror (Emery, 1899)
  • Bothroponera strigulosa Emery, 1895
  • Bothroponera sulcata (Mayr, 1867)
  • Bothroponera talpa André, 1890
  • Bothroponera tavaratra (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013)
  • Bothroponera tesseronoda (Emery, 1877)
  • Bothroponera umgodikulula Joma and Mackay, 2013
  • Bothroponera variolosa Arnold, 1947
  • Bothroponera vazimba (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013)
  • Bothroponera wasmannii Forel, 1887
  • Bothroponera williamsi Wheeler, W.M. & Chapman, 1925
  • Bothroponera zumpti Santschi, 1937
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References
  1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Bothroponera". AntCat. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  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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