Dinoponera snellingi (named after Roy Snelling) is a queenless species of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. The species is known only from type locality in Campo Grande, Brazil.[1]

Dinoponera snellingi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Genus: Dinoponera
Species:
D. snellingi
Binomial name
Dinoponera snellingi
Lenhart, Dash & Mackay, 2013

In 2021, the species name was demoted to a synonym of Dinoponera grandis.[2]

Description

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Workers are unknown.[3]

Male specimens of this species are distinct in several respects. The combination of a bicolored body and head possessing bulging compound eyes and ocelli is unique to this species. More definitive is the shape of the aedeagus which possesses a large ventral lobe and finger-like serrated flange. The short broad digitus volsellaris with finely toothed basal lobe is distinctive, as well as the paramere shape.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Lenhart, Dash & MacKay 2013, p. 156
  2. ^ Dias, Amanda Martins; Lattke, John Edwin (2021-12-21). "Large ants are not easy – the taxonomy of Dinoponera Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)". European Journal of Taxonomy: 1–66. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.784.1603. ISSN 2118-9773. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  3. ^ a b Lenhart, Dash & MacKay 2013, p. 152
  • Lenhart, P.; Dash, S. T.; MacKay, W. P. (2013), "A revision of the giant Amazonian ants of the genus Dinoponera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)", Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 31: 119–164, doi:10.3897/JHR.31.4335
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