Dinoponera snellingi

Dinoponera snellingi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Genus:	Dinoponera
Species:	D. snellingi
Binomial name
	Dinoponera snellingi; Lenhart, Dash & Mackay, 2013

Last updated March 12, 2025

Dinoponera snellingi (named after Roy Snelling) is a queenless species of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. The species is known only from type locality in Campo Grande, Brazil.^[1]

In 2021, the species name was demoted to a synonym of Dinoponera grandis.^[2]

Description

Workers are unknown.^[3]

Male specimens of this species are distinct in several respects. The combination of a bicolored body and head possessing bulging compound eyes and ocelli is unique to this species. More definitive is the shape of the aedeagus which possesses a large ventral lobe and finger-like serrated flange. The short broad digitus volsellaris with finely toothed basal lobe is distinctive, as well as the paramere shape.^[3]

References

↑ Lenhart, Dash & MacKay 2013, p. 156
↑ Dias, Amanda Martins; Lattke, John Edwin (2021-12-21). "Large ants are not easy – the taxonomy of Dinoponera Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 784: 1–66. Bibcode:2021EJTax.784....1D. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.784.1603. ISSN 2118-9773 . Retrieved 2024-03-12.
1 2 Lenhart, Dash & MacKay 2013, p. 152

Lenhart, P.; Dash, S. T.; MacKay, W. P. (2013), "A revision of the giant Amazonian ants of the genus Dinoponera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)", Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 31: 119–164, doi: 10.3897/JHR.31.4335
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[Lenhart&Dash&MacKay_2013_156-1] Lenhart, Dash & MacKay 2013, p. 156

[2] Dias, Amanda Martins; Lattke, John Edwin (2021-12-21). "Large ants are not easy – the taxonomy of Dinoponera Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)". European Journal of Taxonomy. 784: 1–66. Bibcode:2021EJTax.784....1D. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.784.1603. ISSN 2118-9773 . Retrieved 2024-03-12.

[Lenhart&Dash&MacKay_2013_152-3] 1 2 Lenhart, Dash & MacKay 2013, p. 152

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