Neoponera

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
Genus: Neoponera

Species: N. villosa, ....

Neoponera is a genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. Restricted to the Neotropics, the genus is found from southern Texas (United States) to southern Brazil. Workers are slender, and medium to large in size (6.5–19 mm); queens are similar to workers but larger and winged.[2]
Neoponera villosa
Species

Neoponera aenescens (Mayr, 1870)
Neoponera agilis Forel, 1901
Neoponera antecurvata (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera apicalis (Latreille, 1802)
Neoponera bactronica (Fernandes, Oliveira & Delabie, 2014)
Neoponera billemma (Fernandes, Oliveira & Delabie, 2014)
Neoponera bucki (Borgmeier, 1927)
Neoponera bugabensis (Forel, 1899)
Neoponera carbonaria (Smith, 1858)
Neoponera carinulata (Roger, 1861)
Neoponera cavinodis Mann, 1916
Neoponera chyzeri (Forel, 1907)
Neoponera commutata (Roger, 1860)
Neoponera concava (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera cooki (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera coveri (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera crenata (Roger, 1861)
Neoponera curvinodis (Forel, 1899)
Neoponera dismarginata (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera donosoi (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera eleonorae (Forel, 1921)
Neoponera emiliae Forel, 1901
Neoponera fauveli (Emery, 1895)
Neoponera fiebrigi Forel, 1912
Neoponera fisheri (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera foetida (Linnaeus, 1758)
Neoponera fusca (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera globularia (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera golbachi Kusnezov, 1969
Neoponera hispida (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera holcotyle (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera insignis (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera inversa (Smith, 1858)
Neoponera laevigata (Smith, 1858)
Neoponera latinoda (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera lineaticeps (Mayr, 1866)
Neoponera luteola (Roger, 1861)
Neoponera magnifica (Borgmeier, 1929)
Neoponera marginata (Roger, 1861)
Neoponera metanotalis (Luederwaldt, 1918)
Neoponera moesta (Mayr, 1870)
Neoponera oberthueri (Emery, 1890)
Neoponera obscuricornis (Emery, 1890)
Neoponera procidua (Emery, 1890)
Neoponera recava (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera rostrata (Emery, 1890)
Neoponera rugosula Emery, 1902
Neoponera schoedli (MacKay & MacKay, 2006)
Neoponera schultzi (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera solisi (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
Neoponera striatinodis (Emery, 1890)
Neoponera theresiae (Forel, 1899)
Neoponera unidentata (Mayr, 1862)
Neoponera venusta Forel, 1912
Neoponera verenae Forel, 1922
Neoponera villosa (Fabricius, 1804)
Neoponera zuparkoi (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)

References

Bolton, B. (2015). "Neoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. (2014). "The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior". Zootaxa. 3817 (1): 1–242. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1. PMID 24943802.