Biology:Emeryopone

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Short description: Genus of ants

Emeryopone
Emeryopone buttelreepeni casent0101953 profile 1.jpg
Emeryopone buttelreepeni worker from Malaysia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Emeryopone
Forel, 1912
Type species
Emeryopone buttelreepeni
Diversity[1]
5 species

Emeryopone is a small genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae.[2] The genus is distributed in Asia, from Israel to Indonesia. Little is known about their biology, and males remain unknown.[3]

Species

  • Emeryopone buttelreepeni Forel, 1912
  • Emeryopone franzi (Baroni Urbani, 1975)
  • Emeryopone loebli (Baroni Urbani, 1975)
  • Emeryopone melaina Xu, 1998
  • Emeryopone narendrani Varghese, 2006

References

  1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Emeryopone". AntCat. http://antcat.org/catalog/430082. 
  2. "Genus: Emeryopone". AntWeb. http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Emeryopone&rank=genus&project=allantwebants. Retrieved 23 September 2013. 
  3. 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

Wikidata ☰ Q14448725 entry