''Acanthoponera'' is a
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 bioge ...
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 nom ...
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 ...
s in the
subfamily Heteroponerinae.
''Acanthoponera'' contains four rarely collected species and a fifth unnamed species mentioned by Brown (1958) only known from a stray
gyne
The gyne (, from Greek γυνή, "woman") is the primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees of order Hymenoptera, as well as termites). Gynes are those destined to become queens, whereas female workers ...
.
Species
* ''
Acanthoponera goeldii''
Forel, 1912
* ''
Acanthoponera minor''
(Forel, 1899)
* ''
Acanthoponera mucronata''
(Roger, 1860)
* ''
Acanthoponera peruviana''
Brown, 1958
References
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External links
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How To Get Rid Of Argentine Ants
Heteroponerinae
Ant genera
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