''Heteroponera'' 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 ...
of
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 of
Ectatomminae
Ectatomminae is a subfamily of ants in the poneromorph subfamilies group containing four extant and three extinct genera in two tribes. The subfamily was described in 2003 when Barry Bolton divided the Ponerinae
Ponerinae, the ponerine a ...
.
The genus is known to originate from the
Neotropics
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Definition
In biogeog ...
(from
Costa Rica
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to
Uruguay
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and
Chile
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) and
Australasia
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.
Species
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Heteroponera angulata''
Borgmeier, 1959
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Heteroponera brounii''
(Forel, 1892)
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Heteroponera carinifrons''
Mayr, 1887
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Heteroponera crozieri''
Taylor, 2011
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Heteroponera darlingtonorum''
Taylor, 2015
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Heteroponera dentinodis''
(Mayr, 1887)
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Heteroponera dolo''
(Roger, 1860)
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Heteroponera ecarinata''
Taylor, 2015
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Heteroponera flava''
Kempf, 1962
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Heteroponera georgesi''
Perrault, 1999
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Heteroponera imbellis''
(Emery, 1895)
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Heteroponera inca''
Brown, 1958
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Heteroponera inermis''
(Emery, 1894)
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Heteroponera leae''
(Wheeler, 1923)
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Heteroponera lioprocta''
Taylor, 2015
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Heteroponera majeri''
Taylor, 2011
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Heteroponera mayri''
Kempf, 1962
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Heteroponera microps''
Borgmeier, 1957
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Heteroponera monteithi''
Taylor, 2015
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Heteroponera monticola''
Kempf & Brown, 1970
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Heteroponera panamensis''
(Forel, 1899)
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Heteroponera pendergrasti''
Taylor, 2015
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Heteroponera relicta''
(Wheeler, 1915)
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Heteroponera rhodopygea''
Taylor, 2015
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Heteroponera robusta''
Kempf, 1962
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Heteroponera trachypyx''
Taylor, 2015
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Heteroponera viviennae''
Taylor, 2015
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Heteroponera wilsoni''
Taylor, 2015
References
External links
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Ectatomminae
Ant genera
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