Emeryopone
| Emeryopone | |
|---|---|
 | |
| E. buttelreepeni worker from Malaysia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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
- ↑ Bolton, B. (2014). "Emeryopone". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ "Genus: Emeryopone". 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
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