Fisheropone
Genus of ants
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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]
| Fisheropone | |
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| Fisheropone ambigua AntWeb specimen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| 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 | |
Species
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
- 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
- Fisheropone afr02
