Vicinopone

Vicinopone is a monotypic Afrotropical genus of arboreal ants in the subfamily Dorylinae.^[1][2] Vicinopone conciliatrix, the only species in the genus, was first described as Simopone conciliatrix by Brown in 1975 and was transferred to its own genus by Bolton & Fisher in 2012. V. conciliatrix appears to be quite widely distributed but rare. Its rarity is more likely apparent than real because it nests and forages in trees, rarely if ever coming down to the ground.^[3]

Vicinopone
Vicinopone conciliatrix worker from Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Vicinopone Bolton & Fisher, 2012
Species:	V. conciliatrix
Binomial name
Vicinopone conciliatrix (Brown, 1975)
Synonyms
Simopone conciliatrix Brown, 1975 (type species of Vicinopone)