Pseudoneoponera rufipes

Pseudoneoponera rufipes is a species of ant of the subfamily Ponerinae. It is found in southern and eastern Asia. Like other ants in the genus, they extrude a foam when disturbed.^[1]

Ant releasing strings of foam

Pseudoneoponera rufipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Genus:	Pseudoneoponera
Species:	P. rufipes
Binomial name
Pseudoneoponera rufipes (Jerdon, 1851)

Subspecies

• Pseudoneoponera rufipes ceylonensis (Jerdon, 1851) - Sri Lanka
• Pseudoneoponera rufipes rufipes Forel, 1911 - India, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, China ^[2]