| Cryptopone odax | |
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| Cryptopone odax worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Alliance: | Odontomachus genus group |
| Genus: | Cryptopone |
| Species: | C. odax
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| Binomial name | |
| Cryptopone odax (Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014)
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Cryptopone odax is a species of ponerine ant native to Australia.12 They were originally placed in their own genus Iroponera, however molecular analysis by Fisher et al. in 2025 places them within the genus Cryptopone.3
Its workers are orange-colored and small in size (2.6 mm). Queens and males of this species remain unknown. Little is known about their biology, but their small eyes indicate a subterranean lifestyle.2
References
References
- Bolton, B. (2025). "Cryptopone odax". AntCat. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
- 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.
- Fisher, Brian L.; Branstetter, Michael G.; Blaimer, Bonnie B.; Borowiec, Marek L.; Camacho, Gabriela P.; Doré, Maël; Ward, Philip S.; Longino, John T. (19 December 2025). "A genus-level classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (1264): 281–349. Bibcode:2025ZooK.1264..281F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1264.173399. PMC 12743250. PMID 41458144.