Bannapone

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Bannapone
Species: B. cryptica – B. mulanae – B. scrobiceps
Name

Bannapone Xu, 2000

Status: invalid taxon [junior synonym of Stigmatomma: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691]

Primary references

Xu, Z.-h. 2000: Two new genera of ant subfamilies Dorylinae and Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Yunnan, China. Zoological research, 21(4): 297–302. PDF
Ward, P.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2016. Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic entomology 41: 683–693. [2016-06-02] DOI: 10.1111/syen.12186 Reference page. [syn. nov. of Stigmatomma: p. 691]

Additional references

Eguchi, K., Viet, B.T., Yamane, S. & Terayama, M. 2015. Redefinition of the genus Bannapone and description of B. cryptica sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyoponinae). Zootaxa 4013(1): 77–86. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.1.5. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Guénard, B., Blanchard, B., Liu, C., Yang, D.-R. & Economo, E. 2013. Rediscovery of the rare ant genus Bannapone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyoponinae) and description of the worker caste. Zootaxa 3734(3): 371–379. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.3.6 Reference page.