Pseudoponera
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| Pseudoponera | |
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| Pseudoponera stigma worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Alliance: | Ponera genus group |
| Genus: | Pseudoponera Emery, 1900 |
| Type species | |
| Ponera quadridentata (junior synonym of Pseudoponera stigma) | |
| Diversity | |
| 5 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Trachymesopus Emery, 1911 | |
Pseudoponera is a small genus of ponerine ants. The genus was described by Emery in 1900. The genus contains five species, all native to the Neotropics,[1] however P. stigma is present as an introduced species in Oceania and parts of east and Southeast Asia.[2][3][4]
