Odontoponera is a small Southeast Asia genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae.

[4] Its two species are restricted to Southeast Asia, distributed from India in the west to the Philippines in the east, and from southern China further south down to Indonesia.

[4] The ants are locally abundant, with O. denticulata having the widest distribution of the species, from mainland Asia to the Philippines and Sundaland; O. transversa is found from the Malay Peninsula south to the islands of Sundaland.

O. denticulata was later synonymized with O. transversa, but was revived as a species by Yamane (2009).

[4] The name means "toothed Ponera",[6] incorporating the prefix odonto-.