Rasopone

Rasopone
Rasopone lunaris worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Alliance:	Pachycondyla genus group
Genus:	Rasopone Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
Type species
Ponera ferruginea Smith, F., 1858 [1]
Diversity [2]
11 species

Rasopone is genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. The genus is restricted to Central and South America. ^[3]

Species

• Rasopone arhuaca (Forel, 1901)
• Rasopone becculata MacKay & MacKay, 2010
• Rasopone breviscapa MacKay & MacKay, 2010
• Rasopone cernua MacKay & MacKay, 2010
• Rasopone conicula MacKay & MacKay, 2010
• Rasopone ferruginea (Smith, 1858)
• Rasopone longidentata MacKay & MacKay, 2010
• Rasopone lunaris (Emery, 1896)
• Rasopone minuta (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
• Rasopone pergandei (Forel, 1909)
• Rasopone rupinicola MacKay & MacKay, 2010

References

1. Smith, Frederick (1858). "Ponera ferruginea". Formicidæ. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Taylor and Francis. p. 100.
2. Bolton, B. (2015). "Rasopone". AntCat. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
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.