Apomyrminae

Apomyrminae
Apomyrma stygia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Apomyrminae Forel, 1893
Diversity
1 genera 1 species

Evolutionary Placement

Leptanillinae Martialinae Amblyoponinae - see relationships Apomyrminae Proceratiinae Ponerinae - see relationships Agroecomyrmecinae Paraponerinae Dorylinae - see relationships Aneuretinae Dolichoderinae - see relationships Myrmeciinae - see relationships within Myrmecia Pseudomyrmecinae - see relationships Formicinae - see relationships Myrmicinae - see relationships Ectatomminae Heteroponerinae

See Phylogeny of Formicidae for details.

Identification

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Statistics

Extant Taxa

Tribes	Valid Genera	% World Genera	Invalid Genera	Valid Species/Subsp.	% World Species	Invalid Species/Subsp.
0	1	0.2%	0	1	0.01%	0

Fossil Taxa

No fossil taxa are known from this subfamily.

List of Tribes and Genera

Tribes

No tribes within subfamily.

Extant Genera

Apomyrma

Fossil Genera

No fossil genera within subfamily.

Morphology

Karyotype Data

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Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• APOMYRMINAE [subfamily of Formicidae]
  • Apomyrmini Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78. Type-genus: Apomyrma Brown, et al. 1971: 259.

Taxonomic History

• Apomyrmini as tribe of Ponerinae: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78.
• Apomyrmini as tribe of Leptanillinae: Bolton, 1990b: 280; Kugler, C. 1992: 106.
• Apomyrmini as tribe of Apomyrminae: Bolton, 1994: 16; Bolton, 2003: 39, 150.
• Apomyrmini as leptanillomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 39, 150 [Apomyrminae].
• Apomyrmini as junior synonym of Amblyoponinae: Saux, et al. 2004: 465.
• Apomyrmini as subfamily of Formicidae: Baroni Urbani, et al. 1992: 316 [Apomyrminae]; Bolton, 1994: 16 [Apomyrminae]; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 41.
• [Aromyrmini: incorrect subsequent spelling by Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78.]

Taxonomic References

Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 41 (diagnosis).

References

• Fisher, B. L. & Bolton, B. 2016. Ants of Africa and Madagascar, a guide to the genus. University of California Press. 503pp.