Sritoponera

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Sritoponera
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A worker specimen from AntWeb
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Alliance: Ponera genus group
Genus: Sritoponera
Species:
S. suspecta
Binomial name
Sritoponera suspecta
(Santschi, 1914) [1]

Sritoponera is a monotypic genus of ponerine ants described in 2025 containing the sole species Sritoponera suspecta found in the Afrotropics. S. suspecta was previously placed in the genus Parvaponera by Fisher & Bolton in 2016. Its scientific name means "small wicked ant" from ancient Egyptian srit + ancient Greek ponēra. [2]

References

  1. Bolton, B. (2025). "Sritoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  2. Fisher, Brian L.; Branstetter, Michael G.; Blaimer, Bonnie B.; Borowiec, Marek L.; Camacho, Gabriela P.; Doré, Maël; Ward, Philip S.; Longino, John T. (19 December 2025). "A genus-level classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (1264): 281–349. Bibcode:2025ZooK.1264..281F. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1264.173399 . PMC   12743250 . PMID   41458144.