Feroponera
| Feroponera ferox | |
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| F. ferox paratype worker | |
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| Family: | Formicidae
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| Genus: | Feroponera |
| Species: | F. ferox
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| Feroponera ferox Bolton & Fisher, 2008
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Feroponera is a monotypic Afrotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae containing the single species Feroponera ferox. The genus is known only from a few specimen collected from an unoccupied termitary in Cameroon.[1]
References[]
- ^ Bolton, Barry; Fisher, Brian L. (2008), "Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" (PDF), Zootaxa, 1929: 1–37, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1929.1.1
External links[]
Media related to Feroponera ferox at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Endemic fauna of Cameroon
- Ponerinae
- Monotypic ant genera
- Hymenoptera of Africa
- Ponerinae stubs