Loboponera | |
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Loboponera vigilans worker from Gabon | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
Tribe: | Ponerini |
Genus: | Loboponera Bolton & Brown, 2002 |
Type species | |
Loboponera vigilans | |
Diversity[1] | |
9 species |
Loboponera is an Afrotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae with nine recognized species.[2] The genus is found in central and western Africa, from Ivory Coast to Rwanda. Little is known about their biology.[3]