Acanthoponera is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Heteroponerinae. Acanthoponera contains four rarely collected species and a fifth unnamed species mentioned by Brown (1958) only known from a stray gyne.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0