Camponotini 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 language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
containing 2 extinct ant genera and 8 extant
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 ...
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 nomenclat ...
, including ''
Camponotus'' (carpenter ants).
Genera
* ''
Calomyrmex
''Calomyrmex'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is known from Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Aust ...
''
Emery, 1895
* ''
Camponotus''
Mayr, 1861
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Chimaeromyrma
Chimaeromyrma is an extinct, monotypic genus of 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 Cretac ...
''
Dlussky, 1988
* ''
Colobopsis
''Colobopsis'' is a genus of ant in the subfamily Formicinae. This genus was first described in 1861 by Mayr and contains 95 species. The type species is '' Colobopsis truncata''.
Description
As part of Camponotini, ''Colobopsis'' workers have ...
''
Mayr, 1861
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Dinomyrmex
''Dinomyrmex'' is a monotypic genus of ant containing the species ''Dinomyrmex gigas'' or giant forest ant. ''D. gigas'' is a large species of ant, native to Southeast Asian forests. It is one of the largest ants in existence, measuring in at f ...
''
Ashmead, 1905
* ''
Echinopla
''Echinopla'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. The genus is distributed from Singapore and Sumatra (Indonesia) to the Philippines, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua ...
''
Smith, 1857
* ''
Opisthopsis
''Opisthopsis'' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae. Its 13 species are found in Australasia.Wild, Alex. 2010. ''Opisthopsis''. Strobe Ants. Version 23 September 2010. http://tolweb.org/Opisthopsis/22320/2010.09.23 in The Tree of Life ...
''
Dalla Torre, 1893
* ''
Overbeckia''
Viehmeyer, 1916
* ''
Polyrhachis
''Polyrhachis'' is a genus of formicine ants found in the Old World with over 600 species. The genus is yet to be comprehensively resolved and contains many varied species including nest-weavers (e.g. ''Polyrhachis dives''), swimming workers ( ...
''
Smith, 1857
* †''
Pseudocamponotus''
Carpenter, 1930
References
Formicinae
Ant tribes
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