| Euponera | |
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| Euponera sikorae AntWeb alate queen specimen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Alliance: | Odontomachus genus group |
| Genus: | Euponera Forel, 1891 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera sikorae1 Forel, 1891
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| Diversity2 | |
| 15 species | |
Euponera is a genus of ponerine ants distributed widely throughout the Afrotropical and Indomalayan realms. Workers of Euponera are large (6–10.5 mm) while queens are similar to workers, though larger and winged.2
Species
As of 2026, the genus possesses 16 valid species. It used to contain many more species, however those were all transferred away into different genera over time.1
- Euponera agnivo Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera antsiraka (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013)
- Euponera daraina Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera gorogota Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera haratsingy Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera ivolo Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera maeva Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera mialy Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera nosy Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera rovana Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera sikorae (Forel, 1891)
- Euponera sjostedti (Mayr, 1896)
- Euponera tahary Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera vohitravo Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
- Euponera zoro Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013
References
References
- Bolton, B. (2015). "Euponera". AntCat. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- 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.