Sritoponera
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| Sritoponera | |
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| A worker specimen from AntWeb | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Sritoponera |
| Species: | S. suspecta |
| Binomial name | |
| Sritoponera suspecta (Santschi, 1914)[1] | |
Sritoponera is a monotypic genus of ponerine ants described in 2025 containing the sole species Sritoponera suspecta found in the Afrotropics. S. suspecta was previously placed in the genus Parvaponera by Fisher & Bolton in 2016. Its scientific name means "small wicked ant" from ancient Egyptian srit + ancient Greek ponēra.[2]
