A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex
Author
Ward, Philip S.
Author
Blaimer, Bonnie B.
Author
Fisher, Brian L.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4072
3
343
357
journal article
51665
10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4
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1175-5326
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Tribe
Camponotini Forel 1878
=
Polyrhachidini
Ashmead 1905
Genera:
Calomyrmex
,
Camponotus
, †
Chimaeromyrma
,
Colobopsis
,
Dinomyrmex
,
Echinopla
,
Opisthopsis
,
Overbeckia
,
Polyrhachis
, †
Pseudocamponotus
.
Comments.
The composition of this tribe remains unchanged, although some generic boundaries have been modified (see below).
Overbeckia
, not sequenced in this study, is likely a junior synonym of
Camponotus
(
Bolton 2003
)
. All members of this tribe have a unique, vertically inherited bacterial symbiont,
Blochmannia
, whose evolutionary history mirrors that of the ants (
Wernegreen
et al.
2009
). Morphologically the workers of
Camponotini
can be recognized by the combination of distinctive mandibular dentition (5–8 teeth, with the third tooth from apex not reduced in size), antennal insertions well separated from the posterior clypeal margin, and twelve antennal segments (
Bolton 1994
,
2003
).