Metapone

Metapone is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.^[2] The genus is found in the Indo-Australian, Oriental and Malagasy regions. Most species are known only from a few specimens.^[3]

Metapone
Metapone emersoni worker
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Metapone Forel, 1911
Type species
Metapone greeni Forel, 1911
Diversity[1]
21 species

Species

• Metapone bakeri Wheeler, 1916
• Metapone emersoni Gregg, 1958
• Metapone gracilis Wheeler, 1935
• Metapone greeni Forel, 1911
• Metapone hewitti Wheeler, 1919
• Metapone jacobsoni Crawley, 1924
• Metapone johni Karavaiev, 1933
• Metapone kanak Taylor, 2018
• Metapone krombeini Smith, 1947
• Metapone leae Wheeler, 1919
• Metapone madagascarica Gregg, 1958
• Metapone mjobergi Forel, 1915
• Metapone murphyi Wang, Yamada & Eguchi, 2019
• Metapone nicobarensis Tiwari & Jonathan, 1986
• Metapone nivanuata Taylor, 2018
• Metapone quadridentata Eguchi, 1998
• Metapone sauteri Forel, 1912
• Metapone tillyardi Wheeler, 1919
• Metapone tricolor McAreavey, 1949
• Metapone truki Smith, 1953
• Metapone vincimus Alpert, 2007

References

1. Bolton, B. (2015). "Metapone". AntCat. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
2. "Genus: Metapone". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
3. Alpert, G. D. (2007). "A review of the ant genus Metapone Forel from Madagascar", pp. 8-18. In Snelling, R. R., B. L. Fisher, and P. S. Ward (eds). Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E. O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80.

External links

• Media related to Metapone at Wikimedia Commons