''Myopopone'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

ant Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,0 ...

s in the subfamily

Amblyoponinae Amblyoponinae is a subfamily of ants in the poneromorph subfamilies group containing 13 extant genera and one extinct genus. The ants in this subfamily are mostly specialized subterranean predators. Adult workers pierce the integument (non let ...

. The genus contains two species, one extant and one fossil. The

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...

''Myopopone castanea'' is known from the Oriental and Indo-Australian regions, and China. The fossil species, ''Myopopone sinensis'', is known from the

Early Miocene The Early Miocene (also known as Lower Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages: the Aquitanian and Burdigalian stages. The sub-epoch lasted from 23.03 ± 0.05 Ma to 15.97 ± 0.05 Ma (million years ago). It was p ...

Species

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Myopopone castanea ''Myopopone castanea'' is a species of ant in the genus ''Myopopone''. It was described by Smith in 1860. Distribution ''Myopopone castanea'' is distributed in several Asian countries (such as Borneo andIndonesia) and in Australia, where they p ...

'' (Smith, 1860) * †''

Myopopone sinensis ''Myopopone sinensis'' is an extinct species of ant in the genus ''Myopopone''. Fossils were discovered in 1989 in China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous ...

'' Zhang, 1989

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* Amblyoponinae Ant genera {{ant-stub