Cryptopone
Genus of ants
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Cryptopone is a genus of ponerine ants containing 23 valid species, all of which are extant.[2] The genus has a worldwide distribution, with most species occurring in Asia. Workers range from very small to medium in size (1.7–6.1 mm), with the queens being slightly larger.[3] Wadeura was previously synonymized under this genus, however, its two species (now four) were separated out again by Branstetter & Longino, 2022.[1]
| Cryptopone | |
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| Cryptopone gilva worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Alliance: | Odontomachus genus group |
| Genus: | Cryptopone Emery, 1893 |
| Type species | |
| Cryptopone testacea Emery, 1893 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 23 species | |
Species
- Cryptopone arabica Collingwood & Agosti, 1996
- Cryptopone butteli Forel, 1913
- Cryptopone crassicornis (Emery, 1897)
- Cryptopone fusciceps Emery, 1900
- Cryptopone gigas Wu & Wang, 1995
- Cryptopone gilva (Roger, 1863)
- Cryptopone gilvagrande Branstetter & Longino, 2022
- Cryptopone gilvatumida Branstetter & Longino, 2022
- Cryptopone guatemalensis (Forel, 1899)
- Cryptopone jinxiuensis Zhou, 2001
- Cryptopone motschulskyi Donisthorpe, 1943
- Cryptopone nicobarensis Forel, 1905
- Cryptopone ochracea (Mayr, 1855)
- Cryptopone odax (Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014)
- Cryptopone pseudogigas Zhou & Zheng, 1997
- Cryptopone recticlypea Xu, 1998
- Cryptopone rotundiceps (Emery, 1914)
- Cryptopone sauteri (Wheeler, 1906)
- Cryptopone sinensis Wang, 1992
- Cryptopone subterranea Bharti & Wachkoo, 2013
- †Cryptopone succinea (Mayr, 1868)
- Cryptopone taivanae (Forel, 1913)
- Cryptopone tengu Terayama, 1999
- Cryptopone testacea Emery, 1893
- Cryptopone typhlos (Karavaiev, 1935)
