Taxobox
name = "Ponera"
image_caption = "P. pennsylvanica" queen
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
familia = Formicidae
subfamilia = Ponerinae
tribus = Ponerini
genus = "Ponera"
genus_authority = Latreille, 1804
diversity_link = Ponera
diversity = > 30 species
type_species = "Formica coarctata"
type_species_authority = Latreille, 1802
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range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text.
synonyms =
"Ponera" is a genus of ponerine ants.
Description
This genus is very similar to "Cryptopone", "Hypoponera" and "Pachycondyla"[Australian Ants Online] .]Biology
"Ponera" nests contain less than 100 workers in protected places on the ground, most often in the soil or in cracks, rotten wood, under bark or moss on rotten logs[.]Distribution
"Ponera" is known from the Holarctic, Samoa, New Guinea and Australia[.]pecies
* "Ponera affinis" Jerdon, 1850
* "Ponera alisana" Terayama, 1986
* "Ponera alpha" Taylor, 1967
* "Ponera atavia" Mayr, 1868
* "Ponera augusta" Taylor, 1967
* "Ponera bableti" Perrault, 1993
* "Ponera borneensis" Taylor, 1967
* "Ponera chapmani" Taylor, 1967
* "Ponera chiponensis" Terayama, 1986
* "Ponera clavicornis" Emery, 1900
* "Ponera coarctata" (Latreille, 1802)
* "Ponera colaensis" Mann, 1921
* "Ponera elegantissima" Meunier, 1923
* "Ponera elegantula" Wilson, 1957
* "Ponera exotica" Smith, 1962
* "Ponera incerta" (Wheeler, 1933)
* "Ponera japonica" Wheeler, 1906
* "Ponera leae" Forel, 1913
* "Ponera leptocephala" Emery, 1891
* "Ponera loi" Taylor, 1967
* "Ponera manni" Taylor, 1967
* "Ponera minuta" Donisthorpe, 1920
* "Ponera oreas" (Wheeler, 1933)
* "Ponera pennsylvanica" Buckley, 1866
* "Ponera petila" Wilson, 1957
* "Ponera pumila" Jerdon, 1851
* "Ponera scabra" Wheeler, 1928
* "Ponera selenophora" Emery, 1900
* "Ponera sinensis" Wheeler, 1928
* "Ponera swezeyi" (Wheeler, 1933)
* "Ponera syscena" Wilson, 1957
* "Ponera sysphinctoides" Bernard, 1950
* "Ponera szaboi" Wilson, 1957
* "Ponera szentivanyi" Wilson, 1957
* "Ponera taipingensis" Forel, 1913
* "Ponera tenuis" (Emery, 1900)
* "Ponera woodwardi" Taylor, 1967
* "Ponera xenagos" Wilson, 1957
* "Ponera yakushimensis" Tanaka, 1974
Footnotes
References
* ITIS: [http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=574209 Genus "Ponera"]
* Australian Ants Online: [http://www.ento.csiro.au/science/ants/ponerinae/ponera/ponera.htm Genus "Ponera"]
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