Austroponera

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Austroponera
Temporal range: Early Miocene–present, 23.03–0  Ma [1]
Austroponera rufonigra.jpg
Austroponera rufonigra
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Alliance: Ponera genus group
Genus: Austroponera
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
Type species
Euponera rufonigra [2]
Clark, 1934
Diversity [3]
3 extant species

Austroponera is a ponerine genus of ants found in Australia and New Zealand, hence the prefix "Austro-". [3]

Species

Extant: [3]

Fossil: [1]

Holotype of Austroponera schneideri from the Foulden Maar Austroponera schneideri OU44901 holotype worker.jpg
Holotype of Austroponera schneideri from the Foulden Maar

References

  1. 1 2 "†Austroponera schneideri Kaulfuss and Dlussky 2016". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ↑ Bolton, B. (2015). "Austroponera". AntCat. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O. (2014). "The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior". Zootaxa . 3817 (1): 1–242. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1. PMID   24943802.


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