Camponotini is a
tribe
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containing 2 extinct ant genera and 8 extant
ant
Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cre ...
genera
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, including ''
Camponotus'' (carpenter ants).
Ants in the Camponotini tribe are the primary
hosts of ''
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
''Ophiocordyceps unilateralis'', commonly known as zombie-ant fungus, is an entomopathogenic fungus, insect-pathogenic fungus, discovered by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1859. Zombie ants, infected by the ''Ophiocordyceps unila ...
'', also called the zombie-ant
fungus
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.
Genera
* ''
Calomyrmex''
Emery, 1895
* ''
Camponotus''
Mayr, 1861
* †''
Chimaeromyrma''
Dlussky, 1988
* ''
Colobopsis''
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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