''Lioponera'' is a

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 ...

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

Dorylinae Dorylinae is an ant subfamily, with distributions in both the Old World and New World. Brady ''et al.'' (2014) synonymized the previous dorylomorph subfamilies (Aenictinae, Aenictogitoninae, Cerapachyinae, Ecitoninae, and Leptanilloidinae) unde ...

containing approximately 74 described species. The genus is distributed widely across the Afrotropical,

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Indomalaya The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

, Malagasy, and Palearctic bioregions. ''Lioponera'' was described by Mayr (1879) and later placed as a junior synonym of ''Cerapachys'' by Brown (1975). ''Lioponera'' was resurrected as a valid genus by Borowiec (2016) during redescription of the doryline genera.

Species

*'' Lioponera costatus'' *'' Lioponera aberrans'' *'' Lioponera adama'' *'' Lioponera augustae'' *'' Lioponera anokha'' *'' Lioponera bakeri'' *'' Lioponera bicolor'' *'' Lioponera binodis'' *'' Lioponera bispinata'' *'' Lioponera braunsi'' *'' Lioponera braytoni'' *'' Lioponera brevicollis'' *'' Lioponera brevis'' *'' Lioponera clara'' *'' Lioponera clarki'' *'' Lioponera cohici'' *'' Lioponera collingwoodi'' *'' Lioponera constricta'' *'' Lioponera coxalis'' *'' Lioponera crassa'' *'' Lioponera daikoku'' *'' Lioponera decorsei'' *'' Lioponera desertorum'' *'' Lioponera dumbletoni'' *'' Lioponera elegans'' *'' Lioponera emeryi'' *'' Lioponera fervida'' *'' Lioponera ficosa'' *'' Lioponera flammea'' *'' Lioponera foreli'' *'' Lioponera gilesi'' *'' Lioponera grandis'' *'' Lioponera greavesi'' *'' Lioponera gwynethae'' *'' Lioponera heros'' *'' Lioponera hewitti'' *'' Lioponera huode'' *'' Lioponera inconspicua'' *'' Lioponera iovis'' *'' Lioponera kraepelinii'' *'' Lioponera krombeini'' *'' Lioponera larvata'' *'' Lioponera longitarsus'' *'' Lioponera luzuriagae'' *'' Lioponera macrops'' *'' Lioponera marginata'' *'' Lioponera mayri'' *'' Lioponera mjoebergi'' *'' Lioponera mullewana'' *'' Lioponera nayana'' *'' Lioponera neocaledonica'' *'' Lioponera nigra'' *'' Lioponera nigriventris'' *'' Lioponera nkomoensis'' *'' Lioponera noctambula'' *'' Lioponera parva'' *'' Lioponera picipes'' *'' Lioponera picta'' *'' Lioponera piliventris'' *'' Lioponera potteri'' *'' Lioponera pruinosa'' *'' Lioponera pubescens'' *'' Lioponera punctatissima'' *'' Lioponera reticulata'' *'' Lioponera ruficornis'' *'' Lioponera rugulinodis'' *'' Lioponera senescens'' *'' Lioponera similis'' *'' Lioponera simmonsae'' *'' Lioponera singaporensis'' *'' Lioponera singularis'' *'' Lioponera sjostedti'' *'' Lioponera suscitata'' *'' Lioponera turneri'' *'' Lioponera varians'' *'' Lioponera versicolor'' *'' Lioponera vespula''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q107210864 Dorylinae Ant genera