Acanthoponera
| Acanthoponera | |
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| Acantoponera minor worker from Ecuador | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Heteroponerinae |
| Tribe: | Heteroponerini |
| Genus: | Acanthoponera Mayr, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera mucronata | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 4 species | |
Acanthoponera is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Heteroponerinae. Acanthoponera contains six (one is indeterminate, and one is a morphotaxon) rarely collected species and a fifth unnamed species mentioned by Brown (1958) only known from a stray gyne.[2][3]
Acanthoponera is a genus of ants from the New World, distributed from Mexico to Argentina (approximately). Specimens have been observed in wooded areas.
Identification[edit]
Medium size in workers (5-10mm) pale yellow color in its majority, large convex eyes and shallow antennal brooms. The propodeum bears a pair of teeth or spines (long and slender in worker), and the apex of the petiole node occurs dorsocaudally as a thin subconical spine with a more or less sharp point. The tarsal claws are very well developed and each bears not only a strong submedian tooth, but also a prominent narrow lobe resembling a third tooth.
• Count of antennal segments: 12 • Antennal club: 4-5 • Palp formula: 6.4 • Total tooth count: 6-9
Species[edit]
- Acanthoponera goeldii Forel, 1912
- Acanthoponera minor (Forel, 1899)
- Acanthoponera mucronata (Roger, 1860)
- Acanthoponera peruviana Brown, 1958
References[edit]
- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Acanthoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ Brown 1958, p. 194
- ^ Ketterl & Verhaagh 2004, p. 65
- Brown, WL. (1958), "Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera).", Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 118: 173–362
- Ketterl, Jochen; Verhaagh, Manfred (2004), "Acanthoponera mucronata (Roger, 1860) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), first record in Peru and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with description of its male", Revista Peruana de Entomología, 44: 65–68
External links[edit]
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