Euponera

Euponera is a ponerine genus of ants distributed in the Afrotropics (including Madagascar) and eastern Asia. Workers are large (6–10.5 mm); queen are similar to workers, but larger and winged.[2]

Euponera
Euponera sikorae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Formicidae
Subfamily:
Ponerinae
Tribe:
Ponerini
Genus:
Euponera

Forel, 1891
Type species
Ponera sikorae[1]
Forel, 1891
Diversity[2]
26 species

Species
  • Euponera aenigmatica (Arnold, 1949)
  • Euponera agnivo Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
  • Euponera antsiraka (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013)
  • Euponera brunoi Forel, 1913
  • Euponera daraina Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
  • Euponera fossigera Mayr, 1901
  • Euponera gorogota Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
  • Euponera grandis Donisthorpe, 1947
  • Euponera haratsingy Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
  • Euponera ivolo Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
  • Euponera kipyatkovi Dubovikoff, 2013
  • Euponera maeva Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
  • Euponera manni Viehmeyer, 1924
  • Euponera mialy Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
  • Euponera nosy Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
  • Euponera pilosior Wheeler, W.M., 1928
  • Euponera rovana Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
  • Euponera sakishimensis Terayama, 1999
  • Euponera sharpi Forel, 1901
  • Euponera sikorae (Forel, 1891)
  • Euponera sjostedti (Mayr, 1896)
  • Euponera tahary Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
  • Euponera vohitravo Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
  • Euponera weberi Bernard, 1953
  • Euponera wroughtonii Forel, 1901
  • Euponera zoro Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013

References
  1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Ectomomyrmex". 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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