| Iroponera | |
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| Iroponera odax worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Iroponera Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 |
| Species: | I. odax |
| Binomial name | |
| Iroponera odax Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 | |
Iroponera (from Latin ironia, "assumed ignorance", -pone, from the name of the subfamily) is a monotypic genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. Iroponera odax, [1] the single described species, is known only from a few collections in Australia (including Tasmania). [2]
Workers are orange-colored and small in size (2.6 mm). Queens and males remain unknown. Little is known about their biology, but their small eyes indicate a subterranean lifestyle. [2]
