Ponerinae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 61
- Family
- Formicidae
- Collections
- ANSP, UTEP
- Recorded in
- United States, Panama, Costa Rica
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description and identification
- Behavior
- Genera
- Phylogeny
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|250px|Plectroctena sp. fighting
Ponerinae, the ponerine ants, is a subfamily of poneromorph ants containing about 1,600 species in 54 extant genera, including Dinoponera gigantea - one of the world's largest species of ant. Mated workers have replaced the queen as the functional egg-layers in several species of ponerine ants. In such queenless species, the reproductive status of workers can only be determined through ovarian dissections.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ponerinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.