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Paraponera clavata

Bullet ant

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Paraponera clavata (Fabricius, 1775)

GBIF · view at source · updated on 03/07/2026

bullet ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Paraponera

Paraponera clavata

Wikidata · view at source · CC0 · updated on 03/07/2026

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no rights reserved, uploaded by Philipp Hoenle · CC0 · iNaturalist

(c) Rob Westerduijn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Jonghyun Park, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jonghyun Park · CC BY · iNaturalist

(c) manimiranda, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Thomas Barbin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Thomas Barbin · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

(c) Carmelo López Abad, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Carmelo López Abad · CC BY-NC · iNaturalist

Occurrences (GBIF) 16 countries · 5656 records

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Occurrences by year

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Year	Records
1899	17
1900	6
1907	2
1911	4
1920	78
1924	2
1926	1
1927	7
1929	2
1931	1
1933	6
1936	2
1937	4
1939	10
1940	7
1941	1
1944	3
1945	3
1949	4
1951	2
1953	12
1954	2
1955	2
1956	2
1958	2
1959	33
1960	2
1961	19
1962	188
1963	3
1964	4
1965	4
1966	6
1967	7
1968	10
1969	21
1970	20
1971	25
1973	1
1974	7
1975	5
1976	15
1977	8
1978	13
1979	8
1980	14
1981	10
1982	20
1983	38
1984	26
1985	54
1986	17
1987	4
1988	4
1989	19
1990	13
1991	42
1992	25
1993	121
1994	76
1995	17
1996	9
1997	13
1998	10
1999	13
2000	13
2001	22
2002	55
2003	28
2004	66
2005	26
2006	20
2007	27
2008	20
2009	30
2010	64
2011	74
2012	49
2013	57
2014	51
2015	63
2016	84
2017	79
2018	140
2019	320
2020	132
2021	175
2022	422
2023	492
2024	684
2025	865
2026	424

Costa Rica · 1,818 Peru · 1,190 Ecuador · 954 Brazil · 468 Colombia · 348 Panama · 331 French Guiana · 180 Bolivia · 147 Nicaragua · 88 Venezuela · 48 Guyana · 33 Suriname · 25 Honduras · 21 Namibia · 2 Paraguay · 2 China · 1

Costa Rica 27/06/2026 · Ben · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

French Guiana 27/06/2026 · luzluz · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

French Guiana 27/06/2026 · Maël Dewynter · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Peru 26/06/2026 · Max S · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Costa Rica 26/06/2026 · Leyton Reid · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Costa Rica 25/06/2026 · a-wren · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Costa Rica 23/06/2026 · Shayla Tangen · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Costa Rica 22/06/2026 · kaitlyngwood · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

French Guiana 22/06/2026 · Tom Laroche · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Costa Rica 21/06/2026 · Kate McLane · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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