| Wadeura | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Wadeura guianensis worker | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Alliance: | Ponera genus group |
| Genus: | Wadeura Weber, 1939 |
| Type species | |
| Wadeura guianensis Weber, 1939 | |
| Diversity [1] | |
| 4 species | |
Wadeura is a genus of ponerine ants containing four described species native to parts of Central and South America. [2] Originally described in 1939 by N. A. Weber, it was synonymized under Pachycondyla for a time, transferred to Cryptopone in 2014, and reinstated as a genus by Branstetter & Longino, 2022. [1]