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Paraponera clavata🐜

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SpeciesHymenopteraFormicidae
Arthropods

🐜Paraponera clavata

Paraponera clavata (Fabricius, 1775)

La hormiga bala o tocantera (Paraponera clavata) es una especie de insecto himenóptero de la familia Formicidae y único miembro viviente del género Paraponera (existe un fósil, Paraponera dieteri† Baroni Urbani, 1994). El nombre viene del griego ponerina, 'dolor'. Mayor que la de cualquier otro Hymenoptera, el dolor de su picadura es treinta veces más intenso que el de una abeja o una avispa, y quienes han sufrido esta picadura aseguran la analogía de la misma con el disparo de una bala. Varios de sus nombres comunes hacen alusión a esta particularidad. Esta hormiga se encuentra particularmente en los bosques fluviales de Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Perú y Brasil, pero su presencia logra extenderse hasta Costa Rica o hasta la península de Yucatán.[cita requerida]

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderHymenoptera
  5. ›familyFormicidae
  6. ›genusParaponera
  7. ›speciesParaponera clavata
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderAnts, bees & wasps · Hymenoptera
  3. subfamilyParaponerinae
  4. genusParaponera
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. subclassPterygota
  6. orderAnts, bees & wasps · Hymenoptera
  7. superfamilyFormicoidea
  8. familyFormicidae
  9. subfamilyParaponerinae
  10. genusParaponera
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子彈蟻 (zh), Formiga-cabo-verde (pt), 24-Stunden-Ameise (de), サシハリアリ (ja), Paraponera clavata (pl), 총알개미 (ko) … and 19 more languages
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