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 | |
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Loboponera vigilans worker from Gabon | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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
edit- 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
edit- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Loboponera". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ "Genus: Loboponera". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ 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.
External links
edit- Media related to Loboponera at Wikimedia Commons