Ectatomminae is a
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...
of
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 ...
s in the
poneromorph subfamilies group containing four extant and three extinct genera in two tribes.
The subfamily was described in 2003 when
Barry Bolton
Barry Bolton is an English 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 for encyclop ...
divided the
Ponerinae
Ponerinae, the ponerine ants, 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 replac ...
subfamily into six subfamilies.
Heteroponerinae used to be an independent subfamily, but was merged into Ectatomminae in 2022.
The taxonomical position of Ectatomminae was further upheld in a genomic reanalysis conducted with alternate methods in 2024.
Taxonomy
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Ectatommini
Ectatomminae is a subfamily of ants in the poneromorph subfamilies group containing four extant and three extinct genera in two tribes. The subfamily was described in 2003 when Barry Bolton divided the Ponerinae subfamily into six subfamilies. ...
Emery, 1896
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Alfaria''
Dlussky, 1999
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Canapone''
Dlussky, 1999
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Ectatomma''
Smith, 1858
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Electroponera''
Wheeler, 1915
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Gnamptogenys''
Roger, 1863
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Holcoponera''
Mayr, 1887
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Poneracantha''
Emery, 1897
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Pseudectatomma
''Pseudectatomma'' is an extinct genus of ants in the Formicidae, formicid subfamily Ectatomminae described by from fossils found in Europe. The genus contains two species dating from the Eocene, ''Pseudectatomma eocenica'' and ''Pseudectatomma ...
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Dlussky & Wedman, 2012
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Rhytidoponera''
Mayr, 1862
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Stictoponera''
Mayr, 1887
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Typhlomyrmex''
Mayr, 1862
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Heteroponerini Bolton, 2003
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Acanthoponera''
Mayr, 1862
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Aulacopone''
Arnol'di, 1930
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Bazboltonia''
Camacho & Feitosa, 2022
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Heteroponera''
Mayr, 1887
References
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Ant subfamilies
Taxa named by Carlo Emery
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