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''Austroponera'' is a
ponerine
Ponerinae 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 the queen as the fu ...
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 found in Australia and New Zealand, hence the prefix "''Austro''-".
Species
Extant: *'' Austroponera castanea'' (Mayr, 1865) *'' Austroponera castaneicolor'' (Dalla Torre, 1893) *'' Austroponera rufonigra'' (Clark, 1934) Fossil: *'' Austroponera schneideri'' Kaulfuss and Dlussky, 2016
References
Ponerinae Ant genera Hymenoptera of Australia Ants of New Zealand {{Ponerinae-stub