Metapone
{{Short description|Genus of ants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Metapone emersoni casent0003116 profile 1.jpg
| image_caption = Metapone emersoni worker
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Metapone
| authority = Forel, 1911
| type_species = Metapone greeni
| type_species_authority = Forel, 1911
| diversity_link = #Species
| diversity = 21 species
| diversity_ref = {{AntCat|429986|Metapone|2015|accessdate=20 January 2015}}
}}
Metapone is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus is found in the Indo-Australian, Oriental and Malagasy regions. Most species are known only from a few specimens.
Species
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- Metapone bakeri Wheeler, 1916
- Metapone emersoni Gregg, 1958
- Metapone gracilis Wheeler, 1935
- Metapone greeni Forel, 1911
- Metapone hewitti Wheeler, 1919
- Metapone jacobsoni Crawley, 1924
- Metapone johni Karavaiev, 1933
- Metapone kanak Taylor, 2018
- Metapone krombeini Smith, 1947
- Metapone leae Wheeler, 1919
- Metapone madagascarica Gregg, 1958
- Metapone mjobergi Forel, 1915
- Metapone murphyi Wang, Yamada & Eguchi, 2019
- Metapone nicobarensis Tiwari & Jonathan, 1986
- Metapone nivanuata Taylor, 2018
- Metapone quadridentata Eguchi, 1998
- Metapone sauteri Forel, 1912
- Metapone tillyardi Wheeler, 1919
- Metapone tricolor McAreavey, 1949
- Metapone truki Smith, 1953
- Metapone vincimus Alpert, 2007
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References
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{{cite web |url=http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Metapone&rank=genus&project=allantwebants |title= Genus: Metapone |date= |website=antweb.org |publisher=AntWeb |accessdate=23 September 2013}}
Alpert, G. D. (2007). "A review of the ant genus Metapone Forel from Madagascar", pp. 8-18. In Snelling, R. R., B. L. Fisher, and P. S. Ward (eds). Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E. O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80.
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External links
- {{commonscat-inline|Metapone|Metapone}}
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