| Ponera | |
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| Ponera sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Ponera Latreille, 1804 |
| Type species | |
| Formica coarctata Latreille, 1802 | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 66 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pseudocryptopone Wheeler, W.M., 1933 | |
Ponera is a genusofponerine ants. The name is the Latinized form (Ponēra) of the Ancient Greek ponira (πονηρά, 'wicked, wretched').[2]
Workers are very small to small in size (1–4 mm); queen are similar to workers but winged.[3] This genus is very similar to Cryptopone, Hypoponera and Pachycondyla.[4]
Ponera nests contain less than 100 workers in protected places on the ground, most often in the soil or in cracks, rotten wood, under bark or moss on rotten logs.[4]
Ponera is known from the Holarctic, Samoa, New Guinea and Australia.[4]
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