''Heteroponera inca'' is a species of
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 ...
in the genus ''
Heteroponera
''Heteroponera'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Heteroponerinae. The genus is known from the Neotropics (from Costa Rica to Uruguay and Chile) and Australasia
Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some nei ...
''. Endemic to
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
, it was described by William Louis Brown Jr. in 1958.
[Brown, W. L. Jr. (1958). "Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera)". ''Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology''. 118: 173-362.]
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Heteroponerinae
Hymenoptera of South America
Insects described in 1958
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