Biology:Parvaponera

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Short description: Genus of ants

Parvaponera
Pachycondyla darwinii casent0172437 profile 1.jpg
Parvaponera darwinii worker
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
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

  1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Parvaponera". AntCat. http://antcat.org/catalog/461834. 
  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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q19598415 entry