Camponotini is a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
containing 2 extinct ant genera and 8 extant
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 ...
genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
, including ''
Camponotus'' (carpenter ants).
Genera
* ''
Calomyrmex
''Calomyrmex'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is known from Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Aust ...
''
Emery, 1895
* ''
Camponotus''
Mayr, 1861
* †''
Chimaeromyrma''
Dlussky, 1988
* ''
Colobopsis
''Colobopsis'' is a genus of ant in the subfamily Formicinae. This genus was first described in 1861 by Mayr and contains 95 species. The type species is '' Colobopsis truncata''.
Description
As part of Camponotini, ''Colobopsis'' workers ha ...
''
Mayr, 1861
* ''
Dinomyrmex''
Ashmead, 1905
* ''
Echinopla''
Smith, 1857
* ''
Opisthopsis''
Dalla Torre, 1893
* ''
Overbeckia''
Viehmeyer, 1916
* ''
Polyrhachis''
Smith, 1857
* †''
Pseudocamponotus''
Carpenter, 1930
References
Formicinae
Ant tribes
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