Loboponera

Loboponera
Loboponera vigilans worker from Gabon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Alliance:	Plectroctena genus group
Genus:	Loboponera Bolton & Brown, 2002
Type species
Loboponera vigilans
Diversity [1]
9 species

Loboponera is an Afrotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae with nine recognized species. ^[2] The genus is found in central and western Africa, from Ivory Coast to Rwanda. Little is known about their biology. ^[3]

Species

• Loboponera basalis Bolton & Brown, 2002
• Loboponera edentula Bolton & Brown, 2002
• Loboponera nasica (Santschi, 1920)
• Loboponera nobiliae Fisher, 2006
• Loboponera obeliscata Bolton & Brown, 2002
• Loboponera politula Bolton & Brown, 2002
• Loboponera subatra Bolton & Brown, 2002
• Loboponera trica Bolton & Brown, 2002
• Loboponera vigilans Bolton & Brown, 2002

References

1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Loboponera". AntCat. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
2. "Genus: Loboponera". antweb.org. AntWeb . Retrieved 29 September 2013.
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.

External links

• Media related to Loboponera at Wikimedia Commons