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Lioponera

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Lioponera
Lioponera longitarsus worker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Lioponera
Mayr, 1879
Type species
Lioponera longitarsus
Mayr, 1879
Diversity[1]
76 species

Lioponera is a genus of ants in the subfamily Dorylinae containing approximately 74 described species.[1] The genus is distributed widely across the Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, and Palearctic bioregions.[2] Lioponera was described by Mayr (1879) and later placed as a junior synonym of Cerapachys by Brown (1975). Lioponera was resurrected as a valid genus by Borowiec (2016) during redescription of the doryline genera.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Bolton, B. (2021). "Lioponera". AntCat. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Genus: Lioponera". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  3. ^ Borowiec, M. (2016). "Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (608): 1–280. Bibcode:2016ZooK..608....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.608.9427. PMC 4982377. PMID 27559303.