Stigmatomma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Amblyoponinae. The genus has a worldwide distribution, and like most other amblyoponines, Stigmatomma species are specialized predators. First described by Roger (1859), it was for a long time considered to be a synonym of Amblyopone until it was revived as an independent genus by Yoshimura & Fisher (2012) based on worker mandible morphology.
Species As of 2026, Stigmatomma contains 58 valid species, including 56 extant and two extinct. Extant species
Stigmatomma amblyops Karavaiev, 1935 Stigmatomma annae (Arnol'di, 1968) Stigmatomma awa (Xu & Chu, 2012) Stigmatomma bellii (Forel, 1900) Stigmatomma besucheti (Baroni Urbani, 1978) Stigmatomma bolabola Esteves & Fisher, 2016 Stigmatomma boltoni (Bharti & Wachkoo, 2011) Stigmatomma bruni Forel, 1912 Stigmatomma caliginosum (Onoyama, 1999) Stigmatomma crenatum (Xu, 2001) Stigmatomma crypticum (Eguchi et al., 2015) Stigmatomma denticulatum Roger, 1859 Stigmatomma draconis Hamer et al., 2023 Stigmatomma emeryi Saunders, 1890 Stigmatomma eminia (Zhou, 2001) Stigmatomma feae Emery, 1895 Stigmatomma fulvidum (Terayama, 1987) Stigmatomma gaetulicum (Baroni Urbani, 1978) Stigmatomma impressifrons Emery, 1869 Stigmatomma irayhady Esteves & Fisher, 2016 Stigmatomma janovitsika Esteves & Fisher, 2016 Stigmatomma kangba (Xu & Chu, 2012) Stigmatomma liebe Esteves & Fisher, 2016 Stigmatomma luyiae Hsu et al., 2017 Stigmatomma luzonicum Wheeler & Chapman, 1925 Stigmatomma magnum Wimolsuthikul et al., 2025 Stigmatomma meilianum (Xu & Chu, 2012) Stigmatomma minutum Forel, 1913 Stigmatomma mulanae (Xu, 2000) Stigmatomma noonadan (Taylor, 1965) Stigmatomma normandi Santschi, 1915 Stigmatomma octodentatum (Xu, 2006) Stigmatomma ophthalmicum (Baroni Urbani, 1978) Stigmatomma oregonense Wheeler, 1915 Stigmatomma pagei Hamer et al., 2023 Stigmatomma pallipes (Haldeman, 1844) Stigmatomma pertinax (Baroni Urbani, 1978) Stigmatomma pluto (Gotwald & Lévieux, 1972) Stigmatomma quadratum Karavaiev, 1935 Stigmatomma reclinatum (Mayr, 1879) Stigmatomma roahady Esteves & Fisher, 2016 Stigmatomma rothneyi (Forel, 1900) Stigmatomma rubiginoum (Wu & Wang, 1992) Stigmatomma sakaii (Terayama, 1989) Stigmatomma sakalava Esteves & Fisher, 2016 Stigmatomma santschii Menozzi, 1922 Stigmatomma scrobiceps (Guénard et al., 2013) Stigmatomma silvestrii Wheeler, 1928 Stigmatomma testaceum (Motschoulsky, 1863) Stigmatomma trigonignathum (Brown, 1949) Stigmatomma trilobum (Xu, 2001) Stigmatomma tsyhady Esteves & Fisher, 2016 Stigmatomma xui Bharti & Rilta, 2015 Stigmatomma zaojun (Terayama, 2009) Stigmatomma zoma (Xu & Chu, 2012) Stigmatomma zwaluwenburgi Williams, 1946
Extinct species
†Stigmatomma electrinum (Dlussky, 2009) †Stigmatomma groehni (Dlussky, 2009)
References
Roger, J. (1859). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Ameisenfauna der Mittelmeerländer." I. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 3: 225–259.
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