''Pseudoponera'' is a small
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
ponerine 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. The genus was described by
Emery in 1900.
Description
The genus contains a small number of species, preferring
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 ...
climates. Despite being a small genus, the species have a worldwide distribution, where they are found in multiple continents.
[Wheeler, W. M. 1922i. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VII. Keys to the genera and subgenera of ants. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 631-710 (page 649, ''Pseudoponera'' as genus)]
List of species
There are 6 species belonging to ''Pseudoponera'':
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Pseudoponera cognata''
(Emery, 1896)
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Pseudoponera gilberti''
(Kempf, 1960)
*''
Pseudoponera gilloglyi''
(MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
*''
Pseudoponera pachynoda''
(Clark, 1930)
*''
Pseudoponera stigma''
(Fabricius, 1804)
*''
Pseudoponera succedanea''
(Roger, 1863)
References
Ponerinae
Ant genera
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