Dolioponera
| Dolioponera | |
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| D. fustigera worker from Cameroon | |
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| Family: | Formicidae
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| Genus: | Dolioponera Brown, 1974
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| Species: | D. fustigera
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| Dolioponera fustigera Brown, 1974
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| Dolioponera fustigera | |
Dolioponera is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Ponerinae containing the single species Dolioponera fustigera.[1] The genus is known only from a few specimens from west and central Africa. Little is known about their biology, and males remain unknown.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Genus: Dolioponera". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ 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 Dolioponera fustigera at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Ponerinae
- Monotypic ant genera
- Hymenoptera of Africa
- Ponerinae stubs