Feroponera
Feroponera is a monotypic Afrotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae containing the single species Feroponera ferox. The genus is known only from a few specimen collected from an unoccupied termitary in Cameroon.[1]
Feroponera ferox | |
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F. ferox paratype worker | |
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Genus: | Feroponera |
Species: | F. ferox |
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Feroponera ferox Bolton & Fisher, 2008 | |
References
- Bolton, Barry; Fisher, Brian L. (2008), "Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" (PDF), Zootaxa, 1929: 1–37, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1929.1.1
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