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Pseudomyrmecinae
Pseudomyrmex gracilis (elongate twig ant) worker
Scientific classification
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

Pseudomyrmecinae is a small subfamily of ants containing three genera of slender, large-eyed arboreal ants, predominantly tropical or subtropical in distribution. 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.

Pseudomyrmecines 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.

Taxonomy

• Pseudomyrmecinae Smith, 1952
  • Pseudomyrmecini Smith, 1952
    • Myrcidris Ward, 1990
    • Pseudomyrmex Lund, 1831
    • Tetraponera Smith, 1852

References

1. "Subfamily: Pseudomyrmecinae". antweb.org. AntWeb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
2. 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". 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. Bibcode:1990SysEn..15..449W. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1990.tb00077.x.
• 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. PMC 4685824. PMID 26582029.

External links

• Media related to Pseudomyrmecinae at Wikimedia Commons

• Pseudomyrmecinae
• Ant subfamilies