Loboponera

Loboponera is an Afrotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae with nine recognized species.[2] The genus is found in central and western Africa, from Ivory Coast to Rwanda. Little is known about their biology.[3]

Loboponera
L. vigilans worker from Gabon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Formicidae
Subfamily:
Ponerinae
Tribe:
Ponerini
Genus:
Loboponera

Bolton & Brown, 2002
Type species
Loboponera vigilans
Diversity[1]
9 species

Species
  • Loboponera basalis Bolton & Brown, 2002
  • Loboponera edentula Bolton & Brown, 2002
  • Loboponera nasica (Santschi, 1920)
  • Loboponera nobiliae Fisher, 2006
  • Loboponera obeliscata Bolton & Brown, 2002
  • Loboponera politula Bolton & Brown, 2002
  • Loboponera subatra Bolton & Brown, 2002
  • Loboponera trica Bolton & Brown, 2002
  • Loboponera vigilans Bolton & Brown, 2002

References
  1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Loboponera". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  2. "Genus: Loboponera". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  3. 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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