Wadeura
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| Wadeura | |
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| Wadeura guianensis worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Wadeura Weber, 1939 |
| Type species | |
| Wadeura guianensis Weber, 1939 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 4 species | |
Wadeura is a genus of ponerine ants containing four described species native to parts of Central and South America.[2] Originally described in 1939 by N. A. Weber, it was synonymized under Pachycondyla for a time, transferred to Cryptopone in 2014, and reinstated as a genus by Branstetter & Longino, 2022.[1]
