Parvaponera

Parvaponera
	P. darwinii worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Parvaponera; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
Type species
	Belonopelta darwinii; Forel, 1893
Diversity[1]
	4 species

Parvaponera is a genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. The genus is distributed in Africa (and Madagascar), Southeast Asia, Australia and the Solomon Islands. Workers are slender and small in size. Queens are similar to workers, but larger and winged.[2]

Species

Parvaponera cavimaculata Wang & Zhao, 2009
Parvaponera darwinii (Forel, 1893)
Parvaponera myropola (Menozzi, 1925)
Parvaponera sheldoni (Mann, 1919)

References

Bolton, B. (2015). "Parvaponera". AntCat. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
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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[AntCat-1] Bolton, B. (2015). "Parvaponera". AntCat. Retrieved 7 January 2015.

[Schmidt&Shattuck_2014-2] 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.