Boltonopone

Boltonopone
Boltonopone kruegeri worker specimen from AntWeb
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Boltonopone Fisher et al. 2025
Type species
Ponera sulcata Mayr, 1867
Diversity [1]
16 species

Boltonopone is a genus of ponerine ants containing 16 species found in the Old World tropics, from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia. Described in 2025, its species were previously placed in the genus Bothroponera by Schmidt & Shattuck in 2014. It is named after myrmecologist Barry Bolton. ^[2]

Species

Boltonopone contains 16 valid species as of 2025. ^[2]

• Boltonopone ancilla (Emery, 1899)
• Boltonopone crassa (Emery, 1877)
• Boltonopone escherischi (Forel, 1910)
• Boltonopone glabripes (Emery, 1893)
• Boltonopone ilgii (Forel, 1910)
• Boltonopone kruegeri (Forel, 1910)
• Boltonopone notaula (Joma & Mackay, 2017)
• Boltonopone picardi (Forel, 1901)
• Boltonopone pilosuperficia (Joma & Mackay, 2017)
• Boltonopone rubiginosa (Emery, 1889)
• Boltonopone ryderae (Joma & Mackay, 2017)
• Boltonopone silvestrii (Santschi, 1914)
• Boltonopone soror (Emery, 1899)
• Boltonopone sulcata (Mayr, 1867)
• Boltonopone tesseronoda (Emery, 1877)
• Boltonopone williamsi (Wheeler, W.M. & Chapman, 1925)

References

1. Bolton, B. (2025). "Boltonopone". AntCat. Retrieved 30 December 2025.
2. Fisher, Brian L.; Branstetter, Michael G.; Blaimer, Bonnie B.; Borowiec, Marek L.; Camacho, Gabriela P.; Doré, Maël; Ward, Philip S.; Longino, John T. (19 December 2025). "A genus-level classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (1264): 281–349. Bibcode:2025ZooK.1264..281F. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1264.173399 . PMC   12743250 . PMID   41458144.