Amblyopone
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Amblyopone is a genus
Genus
In 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 ant
Ant
Ants 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 basal
Basal (phylogenetics)
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 ants are specialized predators of several kinds of arthropod
Arthropod
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Centipede
Centipedes 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
  • 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
    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. PDF

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