Feroponera

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Feroponera ferox
F. ferox paratype worker
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Feroponera

Bolton & Fisher, 2008
Species:
F. ferox
Binomial name
Feroponera ferox
Bolton & Fisher, 2008

Feroponera is a monotypic Afrotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae containing the single species Feroponera ferox. The genus is known only from a few specimen collected from an non-occupied termitary in Cameroon.[1]

References

  1. ^ Bolton, Barry; Fisher, Brian L. (2008), "Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)" (PDF), Zootaxa, 1929: 1–37

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