Emeryopone

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]

Emeryopone
E. buttelreepeni worker from Malaysia
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Emeryopone

Forel, 1912
Type species
Emeryopone buttelreepeni
Diversity[1]
5 species

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. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  2. "Genus: Emeryopone". antweb.org. AntWeb. 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.


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