Amblyopone

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Amblyoponinae
Genus: Amblyopone
Species (10 valid):
Valid names

A. aberrans – A. australis – A. clarki – A. ferruginea – A. gingivalis – A. hackeri – A. leae – A. longidens – A. mercovichi – A. michaelseni
Invalid names

A. agostii – A. annae – A. armigera – A. bellii – A. besucheti – A. boltoni – A. caliginosa – A. castaneus – A. cephalotes – A. chilensis – A. cleae – A. crenata – A. degenerata – A. electrina – A. eminia – A. exigua – A. falcata – A. fulvida – A. gaetulica – A. gheorghieffi – A. gnoma – A. gracilis – A. groehni – A. heraldoi – A. laevidens – A. lucida – A. lurilabes – A. mandibularis – A. minor – A. monrosi – A. mystriops – A. nana – A. noonadan – A. obscura – A. octodentata – A. ophthalmica – A. orizabana – A. papuana – A. pertinax – A. pluto – A. punctulata – A. reclinata – A. rothneyi – A. rubiginous – A. sakaii – A. saundersi – A. smithi – A. testacea – A. trigonignatha – A. triloba – A. tropicalis – A. wilsoni – A. zaojun
Name

Amblyopone Erichson, 1842

Type species: Amblyopone australis Erichson, 1842 by monotypy.

Synonyms

Neoamblyopone Wheeler, 1927
Protamblyopone Wheeler, 1927

References
Primary references

Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-Fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 8: 83–287, plates IV–V. BHL Reference page. [first availability, see p. 260]

Additional references

Terayama, M. 1987. A new species of Amblyopone (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Japan. Edaphologia 36: 31–33. Reference page.
Terayama, M. 1989. The ant tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Taiwan, with description of a new species. Japanese Journal of Entomoloty 57(2): 343-346. Abstract and full article (CiNii). Reference page.
Terayama, M. 2009. A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Liberal Arts, Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University 17: 81–266. Reference page.
Yoshimura, M.; Fisher, B.L. 2012: A revision of male ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with resurrections of the genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS One 7(3): e33325. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033325 Reference page.
Yoshimura, M.; Fisher, B.L. 2014: A revision of the ant genus Mystrium in the Malagasy region with description of six new species and remarks on Amblyopone and Stigmatomma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Amblyoponinae). ZooKeys 394: 1-99. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.394.6446 Reference page.

Amblyopone is a genus of 10 species of ants, found in Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea and New Zealand.[2] Ants of this genus possess the gamergate, meaning workers are able to reproduce within a colony lacking a queen.[3]
Species

Amblyopone aberrans Wheeler, 1927
Amblyopone australis Erichson, 1842
Amblyopone clarki Wheeler, 1927
Amblyopone ferruginea Smith, 1858
Amblyopone gingivalis Brown, 1960
Amblyopone hackeri Wheeler, 1927
Amblyopone leae Wheeler, 1927
Amblyopone longidens Forel, 1910
Amblyopone mercovichi Brown, 1960
Amblyopone michaelseni Forel, 1907

References

Bolton, B. (2014). "Amblyopone". AntCat. Retrieved 21 Jan 2021.
Yoshimura, M.; Fisher, B.L. 2012: A revision of male ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with resurrections of the genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS One, 7(3): e33325. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033325 reference page
Ito, Fuminori (1993). "Social organization in a primitive ponerine ant: queenless reproduction, dominance hierarchy and functional polygyny in Amblyopone sp. (reclinata group) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)". Journal of Natural History. Taylor and Francis. 27 (6): 1315–1324. doi:10.1080/00222939300770751. ISSN 0022-2933.