Cryptopone
Sign in to saveCryptopone is a genus of ponerine ants containing 23 valid species, all of which are extant. The genus has a worldwide distribution, with most species occurring in Asia. Workers range from very small to medium in size (1.7–6.1 mm), with the queens being slightly larger. Wadeura was previously synonymized under this genus, however, its two species (now four) were separated out again by Branstetter & Longino, 2022.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyFormicidae
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Cryptopone is a genus of ponerine ants containing 23 valid species, all of which are extant. The genus has a worldwide distribution, with most species occurring in Asia. Workers range from very small to medium in size (1.7–6.1 mm), with the queens being slightly larger. Wadeura was previously synonymized under this genus, however, its two species (now four) were separated out again by Branstetter & Longino, 2022.
==Species== Cryptopone arabica Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 Cryptopone butteli Forel, 1913 Cryptopone crassicornis (Emery, 1897) Cryptopone fusciceps Emery, 1900 Cryptopone gigas Wu & Wang, 1995 Cryptopone gilva (Roger, 1863) Cryptopone gilvagrande Branstetter & Longino, 2022 Cryptopone gilvatumida Branstetter & Longino, 2022 Cryptopone guatemalensis (Forel, 1899) Cryptopone jinxiuensis Zhou, 2001 Cryptopone motschulskyi Donisthorpe, 1943 Cryptopone nicobarensis Forel, 1905 Cryptopone ochracea (Mayr, 1855) Cryptopone odax (Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014) Cryptopone pseudogigas Zhou & Zheng, 1997 Cryptopone recticlypea Xu, 1998 Cryptopone rotundiceps (Emery, 1914) Cryptopone sauteri (Wheeler, 1906) Cryptopone sinensis Wang, 1992 Cryptopone subterranea Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013 †Cryptopone succinea (Mayr, 1868) Cryptopone taivanae (Forel, 1913) Cryptopone tengu Terayama, 1999 Cryptopone testacea Emery, 1893 Cryptopone typhlos (Karavaiev, 1935)