Boloponera
| Boloponera | |
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| B. vicans, holotype specimen | |
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| Family: | Formicidae
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| Genus: | Boloponera Fisher, 2006
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| Species: | B. vicans
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| Boloponera vicans Fisher, 2006
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| Boloponera vicans | |
Boloponera is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Ponerinae.[1] The genus contains the single species Boloponera vicans, known from a single worker specimen collected in leaf litter in the Central African Republic.[2] It is sometimes referred to as Bry's Ant after its discoverer, Brian Fisher.[3]
Description[]
The worker specimen is small (3.3 mm) and orange in color. It has linear mandibles, with two small teeth. Nothing is known about its biology, but the linear mandibles suggest that the ants are specialized predators.[4]
References[]
- ^ "Genus: Boloponera". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ Fisher, B. L. (2006). "Boloponera vicans gen.n. and sp.n. and two new species of the Plectroctena genus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 8: 111–118.
- ^ Fisher, Brian. "Boloponera in Africa" (PDF). California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^ Schmidt, C. A; Shattuck, S. O. (2014). "The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior". Zootaxa. 3817 (1): 1–242. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1. PMID 24943802.
External links[]
Media related to Boloponera at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Endemic fauna of the Central African Republic
- Ponerinae
- Monotypic ant genera
- Hymenoptera of Africa
- Ponerinae stubs