Subfamily: Pseudomyrmecinae
Author: P.S.Ward , Revised: 9/28/2002Taxonomic Hierarchy:
Subfamily: Pseudomyrmecinae
Identification:
Workers of this subfamily can be recognized by the combination of large eyes (EL/HL usually > 0.25), short mandibles, flexible promesonotal connection, and presence of a postpetiole. Other characteristic features include: antennal sockets partly exposed in full-face (frontal) view; scape relatively short (SL/HL < 0.75); clypeus narrow (front to back) and not extending posteriorly between the frontal carinae; metapleural gland orifice situated at extreme posteroventral margin of metapleuron; hind tibia usually with two apical spurs, of which the posterior spur is pectinate; and sting well developed.Notes:
These are slender, large-eyed arboreal ants, predominantly tropical or subtropical in distribution. One genus and two species occur in California.Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)
Pseudomyrmecinae Smith, M.R. 1952a: 98. Type-genus: Pseudomyrmex.
Taxonomic history
Pseudomyrmecinae as family: Bernard, 1953b: 221 [Pseudomyrmicidae].
Pseudomyrmecinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Smith, M.R. 1952a: 98; Brown, 1954e: 23; all subsequent authors.
Pseudomyrmecinae as myrmeciomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 30, 134.
Pseudomyrmecinae as formicoid subfamily of Formicidae: Brady, Schultz, et al. 2006: 18173; Moreau, Bell, et al. 2006: 102.
Pseudomyrmecinae as formicoid myrmeciomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Ward, 2007a: 556.
Tribe: Pseudomyrmecini.
References:
Bolton (1994); Ward (1989a, 1990, 1991, 2001).3 Genera Imaged | View All 3 Genera for this subfamily
Myrcidris
Pseudomyrmex
Tetraponera
Enlarge Map
TOOLS:
View:
- See Genera for this subfamily
(3
examples)
- Map Genera within this subfamily
- View Pseudomyrmecinae in Google Earth
Field Guide:
- Take a PDF of this subfamily into the field with youComparison Tool:
- Compare images of the Genera within this subfamilyCatalog:
- See Hymenoptera Name Server
Copyright © 2002-2010.
Use of this web site and information available from it is subject to our Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons License. We encourage non-commercial use of ant web images. Each image must be attributed to its photographer and to www.antweb.org.
Antweb is funded from private donations and from grants from the National Science Foundation, DEB-0344731 and EF-0431330.
Use of this web site and information available from it is subject to our Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons License. We encourage non-commercial use of ant web images. Each image must be attributed to its photographer and to www.antweb.org.
Antweb is funded from private donations and from grants from the National Science Foundation, DEB-0344731 and EF-0431330.
AntWeb is hosted by The California Academy of Sciences.