Loboponera
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| Loboponera | |
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| Loboponera vigilans worker from Gabon | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Alliance: | Plectroctena genus group |
| 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]
