Metapone
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| Metapone | |
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| Metapone emersoni worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Metapone Forel, 1911 |
| Type species | |
| Metapone greeni Forel, 1911 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 21 species | |
Metapone is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae.[2] The genus is found in the Indo-Australian, Oriental and Malagasy regions. Most species are known only from a few specimens.[3]
