Pseudoneoponera

Pseudoneoponera
Pseudoneoponera verecundae male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Alliance:	Odontomachus genus group
Genus:	Pseudoneoponera Donisthorpe, 1943
Type species
Pseudoneoponera verecundae [1] Donisthorpe, 1943
Diversity [2]
18 species
Synonyms
TrachymesopusEmery, 1911

Pseudoneoponera is a ponerine genus of ants found from India to Australia, they are mostly queenless gamergate species, most of the species within the genus thrives on only gamergates. ^[2]

Species

• Pseudoneoponera barbata (Stitz, 1911)
• Pseudoneoponera bispinosa (Smith, F., 1858)
• Pseudoneoponera denticulata (Kirby, 1896)
• Pseudoneoponera dubitata (Forel, 1900)
• Pseudoneoponera excavata (Emery, 1893)
• Pseudoneoponera havilandi (Forel, 1901)
• Pseudoneoponera incisa (Emery, 1911)
• Pseudoneoponera insularis (Emery, 1889)
• Pseudoneoponera mayri (Emery, 1887)
• Pseudoneoponera obesa (Emery, 1897)
• Pseudoneoponera oculata (Smith, F., 1858)
• Pseudoneoponera piliventris (Smith, F., 1858)
• Pseudoneoponera porcata (Emery, 1897)
• Pseudoneoponera rufipes (Jerdon, 1851)
• Pseudoneoponera sandakana (Wheeler, 1919)
• Pseudoneoponera sublaevis (Emery, 1887)
• Pseudoneoponera tridentata (Smith, F., 1858)
• Pseudoneoponera verecundae Donisthorpe, 1943
• Pseudoneoponera vidua (Smith, 1857)

References

1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Pseudoneoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 10 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.