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| Fisheropone | |
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| Fisheropone ambigua AntWeb specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Alliance: | Odontomachus genus group |
| Genus: | Fisheropone Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera ambigua Weber, 1942 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 13 species | |
Fisheropone is a genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. Known from sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, members of the genus are poorly known. The genus is named after myrmecologist Brian Fisher.[2][3]
Species
[edit]As of 2026, the genus contains 13 described species and at least one undescribed species.[4] Ten species were transferred here from Euponera in 2025 after molecular phylogenetic analysis proved the latter polyphyletic.[3]
Described
[edit]- Fisheropone aenigmatica (Arnold, 1949)
- Fisheropone ambigua (Weber, 1942)
- Fisheropone brunoi (Forel, 1913)
- Fisheropone fossigera (Mayr, 1901)
- Fisheropone hartwigi (Arnold, 1948)
- Fisheropone malayana (Wheeler, 1929)
- Fisheropone pallidipennis (Smith, 1860)
- Fisheropone pilosior (Wheeler, 1928)
- Fisheropone sakishimensis (Terayama, 1999)
- Fisheropone sharpi (Forel, 1901)
- Fisheropone tianzun (Terayama, 2009)
- Fisheropone tynara (Fisher, 2025)
- Fisheropone wroughtonii (Forel, 1901)
Undescribed
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Bolton, B. (2026). "Fisheropone". AntCat. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 Fisher, Brian L.; Branstetter, Michael G.; Blaimer, Bonnie B.; Borowiec, Marek L.; Camacho, Gabriela P.; Doré, Maël; Ward, Philip S.; Longino, John T. (19 December 2025). "A genus-level classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (1264): 281–349. Bibcode:2025ZooK.1264..281F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1264.173399. PMC 12743250. PMID 41458144.
- ↑ "Genus: Fisheropone Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014". AntWeb. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
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