Feroponera | |
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F. ferox paratype worker | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
Tribe: | Ponerini |
Genus: |
Feroponera Bolton & Fisher, 2008 |
Species: | F. ferox
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Binomial name | |
Feroponera ferox Bolton & Fisher, 2008
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Feroponera is a monotypic Afrotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae containing the single species Feroponera ferox. The genus is known only from a few specimens collected from an unoccupied termitary in Cameroon. [1]