''Pseudoponera'' is a small
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
ponerine
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 replaced ...
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. The genus was described by
Emery in 1900.
Description
The genus contains a small number of species, preferring
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In biogeogra ...
climates. Despite being a small genus, the species have a worldwide distribution, where they are found in multiple continents.
[Wheeler, W. M. 1922i. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VII. Keys to the genera and subgenera of ants. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 631-710 (page 649, ''Pseudoponera'' as genus)]
List of species
There are 6 species belonging to ''Pseudoponera'':
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Pseudoponera cognata''
(Emery, 1896)
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Pseudoponera gilberti''
(Kempf, 1960)
*''
Pseudoponera gilloglyi''
(MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
*''
Pseudoponera pachynoda''
(Clark, 1930)
*''
Pseudoponera stigma''
(Fabricius, 1804)
*''
Pseudoponera succedanea''
(Roger, 1863)
References
Ponerinae
Ant genera
Taxa named by Carlo Emery
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