Dinoponera snellingi
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| Dinoponera snellingi | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Genus: | Dinoponera |
| Species: | D. snellingi
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| Binomial name | |
| Dinoponera snellingi Lenhart, Dash & Mackay, 2013
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Dinoponera snellingi (named after Roy Snelling) is a queenless species of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. The species is known only from type locality in Campo Grande, Brazil.[1] In 2021, the species name was demoted to a synonym of Dinoponera grandis.[2]
Description
Workers are unknown.[3] Male specimens of this species are distinct in several respects. The combination of a bicolored body and head possessing bulging compound eyes and ocelli is unique to this species. More definitive is the shape of the aedeagus which possesses a large ventral lobe and finger-like serrated flange. The short broad digitus volsellaris with finely toothed basal lobe is distinctive, as well as the paramere shape.[3]
References
- ↑ Lenhart, Dash & MacKay 2013, p. 156
- ↑ Dias, Amanda Martins; Lattke, John Edwin (2021-12-21). "Large ants are not easy – the taxonomy of Dinoponera Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)". European Journal of Taxonomy: 1–66. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.784.1603. ISSN 2118-9773. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lenhart, Dash & MacKay 2013, p. 152
- Lenhart, P.; Dash, S. T.; MacKay, W. P. (2013), "A revision of the giant Amazonian ants of the genus Dinoponera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)", Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 31: 119–164, doi:10.3897/JHR.31.4335
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