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Acanthoponera
Sign in to saveAcanthoponera is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Ectatomminae. Acanthoponera contains six (one is indeterminate, and one is a morphotaxon) rarely collected species and a fifth unnamed species mentioned by Brown (1958) only known from a stray gyne.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyFormicidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Formicidae
- Collections
- TTU
- Recorded in
- Ecuador
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Acanthoponera is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Ectatomminae. Acanthoponera contains six (one is indeterminate, and one is a morphotaxon) rarely collected species and a fifth unnamed species mentioned by Brown (1958) only known from a stray gyne.
Acanthoponera is a genus of ants from the New World, distributed from Mexico to Argentina (approximately). Specimens have been observed in wooded areas.
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