''Wadeura'' 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
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 ...
ants containing four described
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
native to parts of
Central and
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
.
Originally described in 1939 by
N. A. Weber, it was synonymized under ''
Pachycondyla
''Pachycondyla'' is a Ponerinae, ponerine genus of ants found in the Neotropics.
Distribution
''Pachycondyla'' is currently distributed from southern United States to northern Argentina, but some fossil species (e.g. ''Pachycondyla eocenica, P. ...
'' for a time, transferred to ''
Cryptopone'' in 2014, and reinstated as a genus by Branstetter & Longino, 2022.
Species
*''
Wadeura guianensis''
Weber, 1939
*''
Wadeura holmgreni''
(Wheeler, 1925)
*''
Wadeura holmgrenita''
Branstetter & Longino, 2022
*''
Wadeura pauli''
(Fernandes & Delabie, 2019)
References
External links
Ponerinae
Ant genera
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