Amblyopone is a
genusIn biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of amblyoponine
antAnts are social insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago and diversified after the rise of flowering plants. More than...
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Description
Workers of
Amblyopone have a well-developed sting, elongate mandibles and reduced or absent eyes. They are similar to
Onychomyrmex.
Biology
These
basalIn phylogenetics, a basal clade is the earliest clade to branch in a larger clade; it appears at the base of a cladogram.A basal group forms an outgroup to the rest of the clade, such as in the following example:...
ants are specialized predators of several kinds of
arthropodAn arthropod is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton , a segmented body, and jointed appendages. Arthropods are members of the phylum Arthropoda , and include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and others...
s, especially
centipedeCentipedes are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda of the subphylum Myriapoda. They are elongated metameric animals with one pair of legs per body segment. Despite the name, centipedes can have a varying number of legs from under 20 to over 300. Centipedes have an odd number of pairs of...
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Species
- Amblyopone aberrans Wheeler, 1927
- Amblyopone amblyops (Karavaiev, 1935)
- Amblyopone annae Arnol'di, 1968
- Amblyopone armigera Mayr, 1887
- Amblyopone australis Erichson, 1842
- Amblyopone bellii Forel, 1900
- Amblyopone besucheti Baroni Urbani, 1978
- Amblyopone bierigi (Santschi, 1930)
- Amblyopone bruni (Forel, 1912)
- Amblyopone celata (Mann, 1919)
- Amblyopone chilensis Mayr, 1887
- Amblyopone clarki Wheeler, 1927
- Amblyopone degenerata Borgmeier, 1957
- Amblyopone denticulata (Roger, 1859)
- Amblyopone egregia (Kusnezov, 1955)
- Amblyopone elongata (Santschi, 1912)
- Amblyopone emeryi (Saunders, 1890)
- Amblyopone exigua Clark, 1928
- Amblyopone falcata Lattke, 1991
- Amblyopone feae (Emery, 1895)
- Amblyopone ferruginea Smith, 1858
- Amblyopone fulvida Terayama, 1987
- Amblyopone gaetulica Baroni Urbani, 1978
- Amblyopone gingivalis Brown, 1960
- Amblyopone glauerti (Clark, 1928)
- Amblyopone gnoma Taylor, 1979
- Amblyopone gracilis Clark, 1934
- Amblyopone hackeri Wheeler, 1927
- Amblyopone impressifrons Emery, 1869
- Amblyopone leae Wheeler, 1927
- Amblyopone longidens Forel, 1910
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Amblyopone lucida Clark, 1934
Amblyopone lurilabes Lattke, 1991
Amblyopone luzonica (Wheeler & Chapman, 1925)
Amblyopone mercovichi Brown, 1960
Amblyopone michaelseni Forel, 1907
Amblyopone minuta (Forel, 1913)
Amblyopone monrosi Brown, 1960
Amblyopone mutica (Santschi, 1914)
Amblyopone mystriops Brown, 1960
Amblyopone noonadan Taylor, 1965
Amblyopone normandi (Santschi, 1915)
Amblyopone ophthalmica Baroni Urbani, 1978
Amblyopone oregonensis (Wheeler, 1915)
Amblyopone orizabana Brown, 1960
Amblyopone pallipes (Haldeman, 1844)
Amblyopone papuana Taylor, 1979
Amblyopone pertinax Baroni Urbani, 1978
Amblyopone pluto Gotwald & Levieux, 1972
Amblyopone punctulata Clark, 1934
Amblyopone quadrata (Karavaiev, 1935)
Amblyopone reclinata Mayr, 1879
Amblyopone rothneyi Forel, 1900
Amblyopone rubiginoa Wu & Wang, 1992
Amblyopone sakaii Terayama, 1989
Amblyopone santschii (Menozzi, 1922)
Amblyopone saundersi Amblyopone saundersi is an ant in the subfamily Amblyoponinae, endemic to New Zealand.-References:* *...
Forel, 1892
Amblyopone silvestrii (Wheeler, 1928)
Amblyopone smithi Brown, 1960
Amblyopone trigonignatha Brown, 1949
Amblyopone wilsoni Clark, 1928
Amblyopone zwaluwenburgi (Williams, 1946) |
Further reading
(1927): Ants of the genus
Amblyopone Erichson.
Proc. Am. Acad. Arts Sci. 62: 1-29.
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