Amblyopone

Amblyopone
A. pallipes worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Amblyoponinae
Tribe:	Amblyoponini
Genus:	Amblyopone Erichson, 1842
Type species
Amblyopone australis Erichson, 1842
Species
see text.
Diversity
> 60 species
Synonyms
Neoamblyopone Protoamblyopone Lithomyrmex

A. pallipes female and male

larva of A. pallipes

Amblyopone is a genus of amblyoponine ants.

Description

Workers of Amblyopone have a well-developed sting, elongate mandibles and reduced or absent eyes. They are similar to Onychomyrmex.

Biology

These basal ants are specialized predators of several kinds of arthropods, especially centipedes.

Distribution

Amblyopone is found worldwide in tropical and temperate areas.

Species

Amblyopone aberrans Wheeler, 1927 Amblyopone amblyops (Karavaiev, 1935) Amblyopone annae Arnol'di, 1968 Amblyopone armigera Mayr, 1887 Amblyopone australis Erichson, 1842 Amblyopone bellii Forel, 1900 Amblyopone besucheti Baroni Urbani, 1978 Amblyopone bierigi (Santschi, 1930) Amblyopone bruni (Forel, 1912) Amblyopone celata (Mann, 1919) Amblyopone chilensis Mayr, 1887 Amblyopone clarki Wheeler, 1927 Amblyopone degenerata Borgmeier, 1957 Amblyopone denticulata (Roger, 1859) Amblyopone egregia (Kusnezov, 1955) Amblyopone elongata (Santschi, 1912) Amblyopone emeryi (Saunders, 1890) Amblyopone exigua Clark, 1928 Amblyopone falcata Lattke, 1991 Amblyopone feae (Emery, 1895) Amblyopone ferruginea Smith, 1858 Amblyopone fulvida Terayama, 1987 Amblyopone gaetulica Baroni Urbani, 1978 Amblyopone gingivalis Brown, 1960 Amblyopone glauerti (Clark, 1928) Amblyopone gnoma Taylor, 1979 Amblyopone gracilis Clark, 1934 Amblyopone hackeri Wheeler, 1927 Amblyopone impressifrons Emery, 1869 Amblyopone leae Wheeler, 1927 Amblyopone longidens Forel, 1910

Amblyopone lucida Clark, 1934 Amblyopone lurilabes Lattke, 1991 Amblyopone luzonica (Wheeler & Chapman, 1925) Amblyopone mercovichi Brown, 1960 Amblyopone michaelseni Forel, 1907 Amblyopone minuta (Forel, 1913) Amblyopone monrosi Brown, 1960 Amblyopone mutica (Santschi, 1914) Amblyopone mystriops Brown, 1960 Amblyopone noonadan Taylor, 1965 Amblyopone normandi (Santschi, 1915) Amblyopone ophthalmica Baroni Urbani, 1978 Amblyopone oregonensis (Wheeler, 1915) Amblyopone orizabana Brown, 1960 Amblyopone pallipes (Haldeman, 1844) Amblyopone papuana Taylor, 1979 Amblyopone pertinax Baroni Urbani, 1978 Amblyopone pluto Gotwald & Levieux, 1972 Amblyopone punctulata Clark, 1934 Amblyopone quadrata (Karavaiev, 1935) Amblyopone reclinata Mayr, 1879 Amblyopone rothneyi Forel, 1900 Amblyopone rubiginoa Wu & Wang, 1992 Amblyopone sakaii Terayama, 1989 Amblyopone santschii (Menozzi, 1922) Amblyopone saundersi Forel, 1892 Amblyopone silvestrii (Wheeler, 1928) Amblyopone smithi Brown, 1960 Amblyopone trigonignatha Brown, 1949 Amblyopone wilsoni Clark, 1928 Amblyopone zwaluwenburgi (Williams, 1946)

References

• ITIS: Genus Amblyopone
• Australian Ants Online: Genus Amblyopone

Further reading

• Wheeler, W.M. (1927): Ants of the genus Amblyopone Erichson. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 62: 1-29. PDF

External links

• myrmecos.net: Pictures of several Amblyopone species