''Bothroponera'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

ant Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cre ...

s in the

subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...

Ponerinae Ponerinae, the ponerine ants, is a subfamily of ants in the Poneromorph subfamilies group, with about 1,600 species in 47 extant genera, including '' Dinoponera gigantea'' - one of the world's largest species of ant. Mated workers have replac ...

. It is distributed in Africa and Asia.

Species

*'' Bothroponera cambouei'' Forel, 1891 *'' Bothroponera cariosa'' Emery, 1895 *'' Bothroponera cavernosa'' (Roger, 1860) *'' Bothroponera comorensis'' (André, 1887) *'' Bothroponera crassa'' (Emery, 1877) *'' Bothroponera cribrata'' (Santschi, 1910) *'' Bothroponera fugax'' (Forel, 1907) *'' Bothroponera glabripes'' Emery, 1893 *'' Bothroponera granosa'' (Roger, 1860) *'' Bothroponera henryi'' (Donisthorpe, 1942) *'' Bothroponera kenyensis'' Santschi, 1937 *'' Bothroponera kruegeri'' (Forel, 1910) *'' Bothroponera laevissima'' (Arnold, 1915) *'' Bothroponera lamottei'' Bernard, 1953 *'' Bothroponera masoala'' (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013) *'' Bothroponera mlanjiensis'' Arnold, 1946 *'' Bothroponera pachyderma'' (Emery, 1901) *'' Bothroponera perroti'' Forel, 1891 *'' Bothroponera picardi'' (Forel, 1901) *'' Bothroponera planicornis'' (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013) *'' Bothroponera pumicosa'' (Roger, 1860) *'' Bothroponera rubescens'' Santschi, 1937 *'' Bothroponera rubiginosa'' (Emery, 1889) *'' Bothroponera sanguinea'' (Santschi, 1920) *'' Bothroponera silvestrii'' (Santschi, 1914) *'' Bothroponera soror'' (Emery, 1899) *'' Bothroponera strigulosa'' Emery, 1895 *'' Bothroponera sulcata'' (Mayr, 1867) *'' Bothroponera talpa'' André, 1890 *'' Bothroponera tavaratra'' (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013) *'' Bothroponera tesseronoda'' (Emery, 1877) *'' Bothroponera umgodikulula'' Joma and Mackay, 2013 *'' Bothroponera variolosa'' Arnold, 1947 *'' Bothroponera vazimba'' (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013) *'' Bothroponera wasmannii'' Forel, 1887 *'' Bothroponera williamsi'' Wheeler, W.M. & Chapman, 1925 *'' Bothroponera zumpti'' Santschi, 1937

References

Ponerinae Ant genera Hymenoptera of Africa Hymenoptera of Asia Taxa named by Gustav Mayr {{Ponerinae-stub