Biology:Feroponera
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Short description: Genus of ants
| Feroponera | |
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| F. ferox paratype worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Feroponera Bolton & Fisher, 2008 |
| Species: | F. ferox
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| Binomial name | |
| Feroponera ferox Bolton & Fisher, 2008
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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 specimens collected from an unoccupied termitary in Cameroon.[1]
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)", Zootaxa 1929: 1–37, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1929.1.1, http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01929p037.pdf
External links
Wikidata ☰ {{{from}}} entry
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