Heteroponerini
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| 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 | |
Contents
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).
