Bothroponera

Bothroponera
Bothroponera cambouei worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Bothroponera Mayr, 1862 [1]
Type species
Ponera pumicosa Roger, 1860
Diversity [2]
37 species

Bothroponera is a genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. It is distributed in Africa and Asia. ^[2]

Species

• Bothroponera cambouei Forel, 1891
• Bothroponera cariosa Emery, 1895
• Bothroponera cavernosa (Roger, 1860)
• Bothroponera comorensis (André, 1887)
• Bothroponera cribrata (Santschi, 1910)
• Bothroponera fugax (Forel, 1907)
• Bothroponera granosa (Roger, 1860)
• Bothroponera henryi (Donisthorpe, 1942)
• Bothroponera kenyensis Santschi, 1937
• Bothroponera laevissima (Arnold, 1915)
• Bothroponera lamottei Bernard, 1953
• Bothroponera masoala (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013)
• Bothroponera mlanjiensis Arnold, 1946
• Bothroponera pachyderma (Emery, 1901)
• Bothroponera perroti Forel, 1891
• Bothroponera planicornis (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013)
• Bothroponera pumicosa (Roger, 1860)
• Bothroponera rubescens Santschi, 1937
• Bothroponera rubiginosa (Emery, 1889)
• Bothroponera sanguinea (Santschi, 1920)
• Bothroponera strigulosa Emery, 1895
• Bothroponera talpa André, 1890
• Bothroponera tavaratra (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013)
• Bothroponera umgodikulula Joma and Mackay, 2013
• Bothroponera variolosa Arnold, 1947
• Bothroponera vazimba (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013)
• Bothroponera wasmannii Forel, 1887
• Bothroponera zumpti Santschi, 1937

References

1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Bothroponera". AntCat. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
2. 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.