Phylogeny of Ponerinae

Relationships among genera of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (extant taxa only, except Dolioponera, Feroponera and Iroponera) based on Schmidt & Shattuck (2014) and Longino & Branstetter (2020). Labels are the names of genus-groups.

For relationships among the subfamilies see Phylogeny of Formicidae.

Ponerinae

Platythyrea  (40 species, 6 fossil species) Pachycondyla group ⊞(show genera) ⊟ Simopelta  (22 species, 0 fossil species) Belonopelta  (2 species, 0 fossil species) Thaumatomyrmex  (13 species, 0 fossil species) Mayaponera  (7 species, 0 fossil species) Rasopone  (15 species, 0 fossil species) Neoponera  (58 species, 1 fossil species) Dinoponera  (8 species, 0 fossil species) Pachycondyla  (18 species, 19 fossil species) Ponera group ⊞(show genera) ⊟ Diacamma  (67 species, 0 fossil species) Emeryopone  (5 species, 0 fossil species) Ponera  (62 species, 5 fossil species) Ectomomyrmex  (31 species, 0 fossil species) Fisheropone hartwigi Austroponera  (3 species, 1 fossil species) Parvaponera  (7 species, 0 fossil species) Pseudoponera  (6 species, 0 fossil species) Harpegnathos  (13 species, 0 fossil species) Hypoponera  (177 species, 1 fossil species) Plectroctena group ⊞(show genera) ⊟ Centromyrmex  (17 species, 0 fossil species) Psalidomyrmex  (6 species, 0 fossil species) Loboponera  (9 species, 0 fossil species) Boloponera  (2 species, 0 fossil species) Plectroctena  (16 species, 0 fossil species) Odontomachus group ⊞(show taxa) ⊟ Asphinctopone  (3 species, 0 fossil species) Leptogenys  (334 species, 1 fossil species) Myopias  (48 species, 0 fossil species) Mesoponera melanaria Bothroponera  (46 species, 0 fossil species) Hagensia  (6 species, 6 fossil species) Buniapone  (2 species, 0 fossil species) Paltothyreus  (7 species, 0 fossil species) Promyopias  (1 species, 0 fossil species) Pseudoneoponera  (29 species, 0 fossil species) Streblognathus  (2 species, 0 fossil species) Brachyponera  (23 species, 0 fossil species) Cryptopone gilva, Cryptopone testacea Euponera  (26 species, 0 fossil species) Fisheropone ambigua Phrynoponera  (5 species, 0 fossil species) Anochetus  (115 species, 9 fossil species) Odontomachus  (77 species, 3 fossil species) Megaponera  (6 species, 0 fossil species) Ophthalmopone  (6 species, 0 fossil species) Mesoponera ambigua Odontoponera  (4 species, 1 fossil species)

References

• Longino, J.T., Branstetter, M.G. 2020. Phylogenomic species delimitation, taxonomy, and ‘bird guide’ identification for the Neotropical ant genus Rasopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 4(2): 1; 1–33 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixaa004).
• Schmidt, C.A., Shattuck, S.O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817, 1–242.
• Xiong, Z., He, D., Guang, X., Li, Q. 2023. Novel tRNA gene rearrangements in the mitochondrial genomes of poneroid ants and phylogenetic implication of Paraponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Life 1310, 2068 (doi:10.3390/life13102068).