Holcoponera
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| Holcoponera | |
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| Holcoponera striatula | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Ectatommini |
| Genus: | Holcoponera Mayr, 1887 |
| Type species | |
| Gnamptogenys striatula (Mayr, 1884) | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 40 species | |
Holcoponera is a genus of ants in the subfamily Ectatomminae. They are found in the Neotropics, Southeast Asia, and Oceania.[2] The genus was synonymized under Gnamptogenys for a long time, however Camacho et al. 2022 reinstated the validity of this genus.[3]