Biology:Pseudomyrmecinae
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Short description: Subfamily of ants
| Pseudomyrmecinae | |
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| Pseudomyrmex gracilis (elongate twig ant) worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Pseudomyrmecinae Smith, 1952 |
| Tribe: | Pseudomyrmecini Smith, 1952 |
| Type genus | |
| Pseudomyrmex Lund, 1831
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Pseudomyrmecinae is a small subfamily of ants containing only three genera of slender, large-eyed arboreal ants, predominantly tropical or subtropical in distribution.[1] In the course of adapting to arboreal conditions (unlike the predominantly ground-dwelling myrmeciins), the pseudomyrmecines diversified and came to occupy and retain a much wider geographic range.[2]
Pseudomyrmecinae consists of 230 described species in three genera. Among those, 32 species live in plant domatia, making them the most diverse plant-occupying ant group worldwide.
- Pseudomyrmecinae Smith, 1952
- Pseudomyrmecini Smith, 1952
- Myrcidris Ward, 1990
- Pseudomyrmex Lund, 1831
- Tetraponera Smith, 1852
- Pseudomyrmecini Smith, 1952
References
- ↑ "Subfamily: Pseudomyrmecinae". AntWeb. http://www.antweb.org/description.do?&name=pseudomyrmecinae&rank=subfamily&project=allantwebants. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ↑ Ward, Philip S.; Downie, Douglas A. (2005). "The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants: Phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants" (in en). Systematic Entomology 30 (2): 310–335. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00281.x.
- Ward, Philip S. (October 1990). "THE ANT SUBFAMILY PSEUDOMYRMECINAE (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE) - GENERIC REVISION AND RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER FORMICIDS". Systematic Entomology 15 (4): 449–489. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1990.tb00077.x. https://zenodo.org/record/24961.
- Chomicki, Guillaume; Ward, Philip S.; Renner, Susanne S. (22 November 2015). "Macroevolutionary assembly of ant/plant symbioses: Pseudomyrmex ants and their ant-housing plants in the Neotropics". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1819): 20152200. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.2200.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q1350469 entry
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