Metapone Explained

Metapone is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus is found in the Indo-Australian, Oriental and Malagasy regions. Most species are known only from a few specimens.

Species

• Metapone bakeri Wheeler, 1916
• Metapone emersoni Gregg, 1958
• Metapone gracilis Wheeler, 1935
• Metapone greeni Forel, 1911
• Metapone hewitti Wheeler, 1919
• Metapone jacobsoni Crawley, 1924
• Metapone johni Karavaiev, 1933
• Metapone kanak Taylor, 2018
• Metapone krombeini Smith, 1947
• Metapone leae Wheeler, 1919
• Metapone madagascarica Gregg, 1958
• Metapone mjobergi Forel, 1915
• Metapone murphyi Wang, Yamada & Eguchi, 2019
• Metapone nicobarensis Tiwari & Jonathan, 1986
• Metapone nivanuata Taylor, 2018
• Metapone quadridentata Eguchi, 1998
• Metapone sauteri Forel, 1912
• Metapone tillyardi Wheeler, 1919
• Metapone tricolor McAreavey, 1949
• Metapone truki Smith, 1953
• Metapone vincimus Alpert, 2007