Solenopsidini (meaning "pipe-faced")
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 ...
of
myrmicine 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 with about 20
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 ...
.
Genera
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Adelomyrmex
''Adelomyrmex'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Species of ''Adelomyrmex'' are small, litter-inhabiting ants most often collected in Berlese and Winkler samples. Although the genus and its relatives have a pantropical distribu ...
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Anillomyrma''
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Austromorium
''Austromorium'' is an Australian genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus contains two species, one of which, ''Austromorium flavigaster'', is fairly common and widespread in southern Australia. The other species, ''Austromorium h ...
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Baracidris''
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Bariamyrma
''Bariamyrma'' (from "Baria", name of a river; Latin '' hispidula'', diminutive for "hairy, bristly") is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species ''Bariamyrma hispidula''. The genus is known only from queens fr ...
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Bondroitia
''Bondroitia'' is a small genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Its two species are from Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (1 ...
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Cryptomyrmex
''Cryptomyrmex'' is a genus of ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae. The genus is known from Brazil and Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si ...
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Dolopomyrmex''
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Epelysidris''
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Kempfidris''
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Machomyrma''
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Megalomyrmex''
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Monomorium
''Monomorium'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. As of 2013 it contains about 396 species. It is distributed around the world, with many species native to the Old World tropics. It is considered to be "one of the more important grou ...
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Myrmicaria
''Myrmicaria'' is an ant genus within the subfamily Myrmicinae.
Description
''Myrmicaria'' can be discerned from related ant genera by a postpetiole with a complete tergosternal fusion, a postpetiole-gaster articulation shifted ventrally on th ...
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Oxyepoecus''
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Rogeria''
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Solenopsis''
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Stegomyrmex''
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Syllophopsis
''Syllophopsis'' is a genus of ants belonging to the family Formicidae.
The species of this genus are found in Southern Hemisphere (except Southern America).
Species
Species:
*'' Syllophopsis adiastolon''
*'' Syllophopsis australica''
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Tropidomyrmex''
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Tyrannomyrmex''
References
Myrmicinae
Ant tribes
Taxa named by Auguste Forel
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