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Neoponera

Schmidt, C. A.;Shattuck, S. O.

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Neoponera is a genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. Restricted to the Neotropics, the genus is found from southern Texas (United States) to southern Brazil. Workers are slender, and medium to large in size (6.5–19 mm); queens are similar to workers but larger and winged. thumb|Neoponera villosa

Species

Hairy Panther Ant

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderHymenoptera
  5. FamilyFormicidae
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Specimen records
94
With media
32
Family
Formicidae
Collections
CAS, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), UCONN, UA
Recorded in
Ecuador, Brasil, Colombia, Brazil, Panama, French Guiana

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Instance of
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Parent taxon
Ponerini
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Pachycondyla villosa casent0178688 profile 1.jpg
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Neoponera is a genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. Restricted to the Neotropics, the genus is found from southern Texas (United States) to southern Brazil. Workers are slender, and medium to large in size (6.5–19 mm); queens are similar to workers but larger and winged. thumb|Neoponera villosa

==Species== Neoponera aenescens (Mayr, 1870) Neoponera agilis Forel, 1901 Neoponera antecurvata (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera apicalis (Latreille, 1802) Neoponera bactronica (Fernandes, Oliveira & Delabie, 2014) Neoponera billemma (Fernandes, Oliveira & Delabie, 2014) Neoponera bucki (Borgmeier, 1927) Neoponera bugabensis (Forel, 1899) Neoponera carbonaria (Smith, 1858) Neoponera carinulata (Roger, 1861) Neoponera cavinodis Mann, 1916 Neoponera chyzeri (Forel, 1907) Neoponera commutata (Roger, 1860) Neoponera concava (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera cooki (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera coveri (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera crenata (Roger, 1861) Neoponera curvinodis (Forel, 1899) Neoponera dismarginata (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera donosoi (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera eleonorae (Forel, 1921) Neoponera emiliae Forel, 1901 Neoponera fauveli (Emery, 1895) Neoponera fiebrigi Forel, 1912 Neoponera fisheri (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera foetida (Linnaeus, 1758) Neoponera fusca (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera globularia (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera golbachi Kusnezov, 1969 Neoponera hispida (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera holcotyle (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera insignis (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera inversa (Smith, 1858) Neoponera laevigata (Smith, 1858) Neoponera latinoda (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera lineaticeps (Mayr, 1866) Neoponera luteola (Roger, 1861) Neoponera magnifica (Borgmeier, 1929) Neoponera marginata (Roger, 1861) Neoponera metanotalis (Luederwaldt, 1918) Neoponera moesta (Mayr, 1870) Neoponera oberthueri (Emery, 1890) Neoponera obscuricornis (Emery, 1890) Neoponera recava (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera rostrata (Emery, 1890) Neoponera rugosula Emery, 1902 Neoponera schoedli (MacKay & MacKay, 2006) Neoponera schultzi (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera solisi (MacKay & MacKay, 2010) Neoponera striatinodis (Emery, 1890) Neoponera theresiae (Forel, 1899) Neoponera unidentata (Mayr, 1862) Neoponera venusta Forel, 1912 Neoponera verenae Forel, 1922 Neoponera villosa (Fabricius, 1804) Neoponera zuparkoi (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)

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