| Promyopias | |
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| Promyopias silvestrii worker from the Ivory Coast | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Genus: | Promyopias Santschi, 1914 |
| Species: | P. silvestrii
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| Binomial name | |
| Promyopias silvestrii (Santschi, 1914)
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| Synonyms | |
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Myopias silvestrii Santschi, 1914 (type species) | |
Promyopias is an Afrotropical genus of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae containing the single species Promyopias silvestrii.[1] The rare genus has previously been regarded as a separate genus, as a subgenus and as a provisional synonymy, but was reinstated at genus-rank in 2008.