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Rasopone

Rasopone is genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. The genus is restricted to Central and South America.

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Rasopone
Rasopone lunaris worker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Alliance: Pachycondyla genus group
Genus: Rasopone
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
Type species
Ponera ferruginea
Diversity2
11 species

Rasopone is genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. The genus is restricted to Central and South America.3

Species

  • Rasopone arhuaca (Forel, 1901)
  • Rasopone becculata MacKay & MacKay, 2010
  • Rasopone breviscapa MacKay & MacKay, 2010
  • Rasopone cernua MacKay & MacKay, 2010
  • Rasopone conicula MacKay & MacKay, 2010
  • Rasopone ferruginea (Smith, 1858)
  • Rasopone longidentata MacKay & MacKay, 2010
  • Rasopone lunaris (Emery, 1896)
  • Rasopone minuta (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
  • Rasopone pergandei (Forel, 1909)
  • Rasopone rupinicola MacKay & MacKay, 2010
References

References

  1. Smith, Frederick (1858). "Ponera ferruginea". Formicidæ. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Taylor and Francis. p. 100.
  2. Bolton, B. (2015). "Rasopone". AntCat. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
  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.