{{Short description|Genus of ants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Amblyopone australis casent0104575 profile 1.jpg | image_caption = ''Amblyopone australis'' worker | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Amblyopone | authority = Erichson, 1842 | diversity_link = #Species | diversity = 10 species | diversity_ref = <ref name="AntCat">{{AntCat|430028|Amblyopone|2014|accessdate=21 Jan 2021}}</ref> | type_species = ''Amblyopone australis'' | type_species_authority = Erichson, 1842 |synonyms = ''Amblyopopona'' <small>Schulz, 1906</small><br /> ''Amblyopopone'' <small>Dalla Torre, 1893</small><br /> ''Neoamblyopone'' <small>Wheeler, 1927</small><br /> ''Protamblyopone'' <small>Wheeler, 1927</small> }}
'''''Amblyopone''''' is a genus of 10 species of ants, found in Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea and New Zealand.<ref>Yoshimura, M.; Fisher, B.L. 2012: A revision of male ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with resurrections of the genera ''Stigmatomma'' and ''Xymmer''. ''PLoS One'', '''7'''(3): e33325. {{doi|10.1371/journal.pone.0033325|doi-access=free}} reference page</ref> Ants of this genus possess gamergates, meaning workers are able to reproduce within a colony lacking a queen.<ref name=ito>{{cite journal |last= Ito|first= Fuminori|date= 1993|title= Social organization in a primitive ponerine ant: queenless reproduction, dominance hierarchy and functional polygyny in Amblyopone sp. (reclinata group) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)|journal= Journal of Natural History|publisher= Taylor and Francis|issn= 0022-2933|volume= 27|issue= 6|pages= 1315–1324|doi= 10.1080/00222939300770751|bibcode= 1993JNatH..27.1315I}}</ref>thumb|left|Living specimen of Amblyopone from Auckland New Zealand about 20mm long
==Species== *''Amblyopone aberrans'' <small>Wheeler, 1927</small> *''Amblyopone australis'' <small>Erichson, 1842</small> *''Amblyopone clarki'' <small>Wheeler, 1927</small> *''Amblyopone ferruginea'' <small>Smith, 1858</small> *''Amblyopone gingivalis'' <small>Brown, 1960</small> *''Amblyopone hackeri'' <small>Wheeler, 1927</small> *''Amblyopone leae'' <small>Wheeler, 1927</small> *''Amblyopone longidens'' <small>Forel, 1910</small> *''Amblyopone mercovichi'' <small>Brown, 1960</small> *''Amblyopone michaelseni'' <small>Forel, 1907</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{wikispecies-inline|Amblyopone|''Amblyopone''}} *{{Commons-inline|italic=1}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q1045294}}
Category:Amblyoponinae Category:Ant genera
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