Sritoponera
| Sritoponera | |
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| A worker specimen from AntWeb | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Sritoponera |
| Species: | S. suspecta
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| Binomial name | |
| Sritoponera suspecta (Santschi, 1914)[1]
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Sritoponera is a monotypic genus of ponerine ants described in 2025 containing the sole species Sritoponera suspecta found in the Afrotropics. S. suspecta was previously placed in the genus Parvaponera by Fisher & Bolton in 2016. Its scientific name means "small wicked ant" from ancient Egyptian srit + ancient Greek ponēra.[2]
References
- ^ Bolton, B. (2025). "Sritoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
- ^ Fisher, Brian L.; Branstetter, Michael G.; Blaimer, Bonnie B.; Borowiec, Marek L.; Camacho, Gabriela P.; Doré, Maël; Ward, Philip S.; Longino, John T. (19 December 2025). "A genus-level classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)". ZooKeys (1264): 281–349. Bibcode:2025ZooK.1264..281F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1264.173399. PMC 12743250. PMID 41458144.