Rasopone is genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. The genus is restricted to Central and South America.[3]
| Rasopone | |
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| Rasopone lunaris worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Rasopone Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera ferruginea | |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 11 species | |
Species
edit- Rasopone arhuaca (Forel, 1901)
- Rasopone becculata MacKay & MacKay, 2010
- Rasopone breviscapa MacKay & MacKay, 2010
- Rasopone cernua MacKay & MacKay, 2010
- Rasopone conicula MacKay & MacKay, 2010
- Rasopone ferruginea (Smith, 1858)
- Rasopone longidentata MacKay & MacKay, 2010
- Rasopone lunaris (Emery, 1896)
- Rasopone minuta (MacKay & MacKay, 2010)
- Rasopone pergandei (Forel, 1909)
- Rasopone rupinicola MacKay & MacKay, 2010
References
edit- ^ Smith, Frederick (1858). "Ponera ferruginea". Formicidæ. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Taylor and Francis. p. 100.
- ^ Bolton, B. (2015). "Rasopone". AntCat. Retrieved 7 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.
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