Metapone
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]
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| Metapone emersoni worker | |
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| Genus: | Metapone Forel, 1911 |
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| Metapone greeni Forel, 1911 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 18 species | |
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
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References
- Bolton, B. (2015). "Metapone". AntCat. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
- "Genus: Metapone". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- 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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