Subiridopone
| Subiridopone | |
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| A worker specimen from AntWeb | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Alliance: | Odontomachus genus group |
| Genus: | Subiridopone Fisher et al., 2025 |
| Species: | S. subiridescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Subiridopone subiridescens (Wheeler, 1922)[1] | |
Subiridopone is a monotypic genus of ponerine ants described in 2025 containing the sole species Subiridopone subiridescens found in the Afrotropics. S. subiridescens was previously placed in the genus Mesoponera by Schmidt & Shattuck in 2014. Its scientific name means "slightly iridescent wicked ant" from sub + Latin irid + ancient Greek ponēra.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Bolton, B. (2025). "Subiridopone". AntCat. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
- ↑ 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.
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