Biology:Boloponera
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Short description: Genus of ants
| Boloponera | |
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| B. vicans, holotype specimen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Boloponera Fisher, 2006 |
| Species: | B. vicans
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| Binomial name | |
| Boloponera vicans Fisher, 2006
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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. http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Boloponera&rank=genus&project=allantwebants.
- ↑ 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". https://www.calacademy.org/sites/default/files/blf_cv_2016_may.pdf.
- ↑ 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
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