Metapone

{{Short description|Genus of ants}}

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| image = Metapone emersoni casent0003116 profile 1.jpg

| image_caption = Metapone emersoni worker

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| 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}}

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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.

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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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