Pseudomyrmecinae

Pseudomyrmecinae is a small subfamily of ants containing only three genera of slender, large-eyed arboreal ants, predominantly tropical or subtropical in distribution.[1] In the course of adapting to arboreal conditions (unlike the predominantly ground-dwelling myrmeciins), the pseudomyrmecines diversified and came to occupy and retain a much wider geographic range.[2]

Pseudomyrmecinae
Pseudomyrmex gracilis (elongate twig ant) worker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Pseudomyrmecinae Smith, 1952
Tribe:	Pseudomyrmecini Smith, 1952
Type genus
Pseudomyrmex Lund, 1831

Pseudomyrmecinae consists of 230 described species in three genera. Among those, 32 species live in plant domatia, making them the most diverse plant-occupying ant group worldwide.

• Pseudomyrmecinae Smith, 1952
  • Pseudomyrmecini Smith, 1952
    • Myrcidris Ward, 1990
    • Pseudomyrmex Lund, 1831
    • Tetraponera Smith, 1852

References

1. "Subfamily: Pseudomyrmecinae". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
2. Ward, Philip S.; Downie, Douglas A. (2005). "The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants: Phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants". Systematic Entomology. 30 (2): 310–335. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00281.x.

• Ward, Philip S. (October 1990). "THE ANT SUBFAMILY PSEUDOMYRMECINAE (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE) - GENERIC REVISION AND RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER FORMICIDS". Systematic Entomology. 15 (4): 449–489. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1990.tb00077.x.
• Chomicki, Guillaume; Ward, Philip S.; Renner, Susanne S. (22 November 2015). "Macroevolutionary assembly of ant/plant symbioses: Pseudomyrmex ants and their ant-housing plants in the Neotropics". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282 (1819): 20152200. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.2200. PMC 4685824.

External links

• Media related to Pseudomyrmecinae at Wikimedia Commons