''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 22,0 ...

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. Species *''Heteroponera angulata'' Borgmeier, 1959 *''Heteroponera brounii'' ...

''. Endemic to Colombia, 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 {{ant-stub