Cryptopone

This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Pachycondyla.

Nomenclature

 * CRYPTOPONE [junior synonym of Pachycondyla]
 * Cryptopone Emery, 1893a: cclxxv. Type-species: Cryptopone testacea, by monotypy.
 * [Cryptopone also described as new by Emery, 1893f: 240. Type-species not Amblyopone testacea, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, W.M. 1911f: 161, repeated in Emery, 1911d: 88, Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 780, Donisthorpe, 1943f: 636, Kempf, 1972a: 90 and Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 28; see discussion in Wilson, 1958d: 360.]
 * Cryptopone junior synonym of Pachycondyla: Mackay & Mackay, 2010: 3.