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Heteroponerini
| Heteroponerini | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Heteroponerini Bolton, 2003 |
| Type genus | |
| Heteroponera | |
| Diversity | |
| 4 genera 33 species | |
Identification
List of Genera
Extant Genera
Fossil Genera
No fossil genera within tribe.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- HETEROPONERINI [tribe of Ectatomminae]
- Heteroponerinae Bolton, 2003: 46, 176. Type-genus: Heteroponera Mayr, 1887: 532.
Taxonomic history
- Heteroponerinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 46, 176; Brady, et al. 2006: 18173; Moreau, et al. 2006: 102; Ouellette, et al. 2006: 365; Ward, 2007a: 556.
- Heteroponerini as tribe of Ectatomminae: Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 673 [provisional]; Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 13.
- [Note: Heteroponerini Jaffe, 1993: 8 (as tribe of Ponerinae), and Heteroponerini Fernández, et al. 1996: 362 (as tribe of Ponerinae). Unavailable names; in both cases tribe proposed without diagnosis.]
Genera of Heteroponerini
Acanthoponera, Aulacopone, Bazboltonia, Heteroponera.
Heteroponerini references
Bolton, 2003: 46, 176 (diagnosis, synopsis); Ouellette, et al. 2006: 359 (phylogeny); Moreau, et al. 2006: 102 (phylogeny); Brady, et al. 2006: 18173 (phylogeny); Ward, 2007a: 556 (classification); Fernández & Arias-Penna, 2008: 31 (Neotropical genera key); Keller, 2011: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); Baccaro, et al. 2015: 81, 192 (Brazil genera key, text); Feitosa, 2015a, in Delabie, Feitosa, et al. 2015: 33 (phylogeny, taxonomy); Feitosa & Prada-Achiardi, 2019: 673 (Colombia); Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 13 (diagnosis).