Tetraponera (GW40)
Our 40th Genus of the week is Tetraponera.Described by F. Smith in 1852.Subfamily: Pseudomyrmecinae------------------Many facts in this thread including (but not limited to) the names of the subfamily...
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Have a look at these sites :entomology.ucdavis.edu/fa...seudo.html ( contains a provisional key to Oriental and Australian Tetraponera )ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/T...30101.html ( Japanese Tetraponera...
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These ants look really familiar to those of us who have seen the closely-related American genus Pseudomyrmex. They apparently have similar plant inhabiting, and sometimes plant-defending habits.The...
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Tetraponera is a fascinating genus with a couple of extremely interesting species.In Malaysia we have studied Tetraponera binghami, living within huge bamboo stems (up to 20 m high), in the...
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That is all fascinating, Prof Buschinger, especially the part about nitrogen fixing bacteria. It wouldn't surpise me if someone discovered them in Pseudomyrmex, too. Indeed, I recall some years ago...
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Thanks, Dr. Ant for this supplementing. Of course, there are a lot of records of bacterial ant symbionts. We have listed most of them in the paper Billen & Buschinger 2000. However, it seems to be...
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Tetraponera aethiops Smith, F. 1877 Tetraponera aitkenii Forel 1902 Tetraponera allaborans Walker 1859 Tetraponera ambigua Emery 1895 Tetraponera andrei Mayr 1895 Tetraponera angusta Arnold...Read More
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Type species: Tetraponera atrata F. Smith, 1852. (junior synonym of Tetraponera nigra).
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