Ectatomminae is a
subfamily of
ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22,0 ...
s in the
poneromorph subfamilies In ants, the traditional subfamily Ponerinae has been subdivided into several Poneromorph subfamilies, with several former tribes now elevated to subfamily rank. According to this analysis, some ponerine groups may be more closely related to other ...
group containing four extant and three extinct genera in two tribes.
The subfamily was created in 2003 when
Barry Bolton
Barry Bolton is an English Myrmecology, myrmecologist, an expert on the classification, systematics, and taxonomy of ants, who long worked at the Natural History Museum, London. He is known especially for monographs on African and Asian ants, and ...
divided the
Ponerinae
Ponerinae is a subfamily of ants in the Poneromorph subfamilies group, with about 1,600 species in 47 extant genera, including ''Dinoponera gigantea'' - one of the world's largest species of ant. Mated workers have replaced the queen as the f ...
subfamily into six subfamilies.
Genera
*Ectatomminae
Emery, 1895
**Ectatommini
Emery, 1895
*** †''
Canapone''
Dlussky, 1999
*** ''
Ectatomma''
Smith, 1858
*** †''
Electroponera''
Wheeler, 1915
*** ''
Gnamptogenys''
Roger, 1863
*** †''
Pseudectatomma''
Dlussky & Wedman, 2012
*** ''
Rhytidoponera
''Rhytidoponera'' is a large genus of ants in the subfamily Ectatomminae. The genus is known from Australia and Melanesia, with New Caledonia as the most eastern limit.
Some ''Rhytidoponera'' species have both winged alate queens and gamer ...
''
Mayr, 1862
**Typhlomyrmecini
Emery, 1911
*** ''
Typhlomyrmex''
Mayr, 1862
References
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Ant subfamilies
Taxa named by Carlo Emery
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