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Paraponera clavata

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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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Occurrences (GBIF) 16 countries · 6047 records GBIF · updated on 06/08/2026 Maximize Minimize
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Occurrences by year
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: 15 2001: 22 2002: 55 2003: 28 2004: 66 2005: 26 2006: 20 2007: 27 2008: 20 2009: 31 2010: 65 2011: 74 2012: 52 2013: 59 2014: 53 2015: 63 2016: 88 2017: 82 2018: 142 2019: 321 2020: 132 2021: 179 2022: 426 2023: 504 2024: 694 2025: 887 2026: 744
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YearRecords
189917
19006
19072
19114
192078
19242
19261
19277
19292
19311
19336
19362
19374
193910
19407
19411
19443
19453
19494
19512
195312
19542
19552
19562
19582
195933
19602
196119
1962188
19633
19644
19654
19666
19677
196810
196921
197020
197125
19731
19747
19755
197615
19778
197813
19798
198014
198110
198220
198338
198426
198554
198617
19874
19884
198919
199013
199142
199225
1993121
199476
199517
19969
199713
199810
199913
200015
200122
200255
200328
200466
200526
200620
200727
200820
200931
201065
201174
201252
201359
201453
201563
201688
201782
2018142
2019321
2020132
2021179
2022426
2023504
2024694
2025887
2026744
Costa Rica · 1,985 Peru · 1,261 Ecuador · 1,013 Brazil · 501 Colombia · 357 Panama · 353 French Guiana · 200 Bolivia · 155 Nicaragua · 89 Venezuela · 48 Guyana · 33 Suriname · 26 Honduras · 21 Namibia · 2 Paraguay · 2 China · 1
Colombia 23/07/2026 · Wilson Lombana Riaño · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Peru 23/07/2026 · charlieboult · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 20/07/2026 · Male · srussell1015 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Peru 19/07/2026 · flovh · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Peru 19/07/2026 · Renato Ignacio Guzman · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 19/07/2026 · Luis · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 19/07/2026 · Freek · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Costa Rica 18/07/2026 · Randall Jiménez · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Bolivia 17/07/2026 · Stephany · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record
Bolivia 17/07/2026 · eliasharder · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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