Metapone
| Metapone | |
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| Metapone emersoni worker | |
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| Family: | Formicidae
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| Genus: | Metapone Forel, 1911
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| Metapone greeni Forel, 1911
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 21 species | |
Metapone is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] The genus is found in the Indo-Australian, Oriental and Malagasy regions. Most species are known only from a few specimens.[3]
Species[]
- Wheeler, 1916
- Gregg, 1958
- Wheeler, 1935
- Metapone greeni Forel, 1911
- Wheeler, 1919
- Crawley, 1924
- Metapone johni Karavaiev, 1933
- Taylor, 2018
- Smith, 1947
- Wheeler, 1919
- Gregg, 1958
- Forel, 1915
- Wang, Yamada & Eguchi, 2019
- Tiwari & Jonathan, 1986
- Taylor, 2018
- Eguchi, 1998
- Forel, 1912
- Wheeler, 1919
- McAreavey, 1949
- Smith, 1953
- Alpert, 2007
References[]
- ^ Bolton, B. (2015). "Metapone". AntCat. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
- ^ "Genus: Metapone". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ Alpert, G. D. (2007). "A review of the ant genus Metapone Forel from Madagascar", pp. 8-18. In Snelling, R. R., B. L. Fisher, and P. S. Ward (eds). Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E. O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80.
External links[]
Media related to Metapone at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Myrmicinae
- Ant genera
- Myrmicinae stubs