Ponerini

Ponerini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835
Type genus
Ponera
Diversity
48 genera 1,352 species
Synonyms
†Archiponerini Centromyrmicini Dorylozelini Drepanognathini Euponerinae Harpegnathii Leptogenysii Odontomachidae Pachycondylinae Plectroctenini Pseudoneoponerini Thaumatomyrmii

List of Genera

Extant Genera

Anochetus • Asphinctopone • Austroponera • Belonopelta • Boloponera • Bothroponera • Brachyponera • Buniapone • Centromyrmex • Corrieopone • Cryptopone • Diacamma • Dinoponera • Dolioponera • Ectomomyrmex • Emeryopone • Euponera • Feroponera • Fisheropone • Hagensia • Harpegnathos • Hypoponera • Igaponera • Iroponera • Leptogenys • Loboponera • Mayaponera • Megaponera • Mesoponera • Myopias • Neoponera • Odontomachus • Odontoponera • Ophthalmopone • Pachycondyla • Paltothyreus • Parvaponera • Phrynoponera • Plectroctena • Ponera • Promyopias • Psalidomyrmex • Pseudoneoponera • Pseudoponera • Rasopone • Simopelta • Streblognathus • Thaumatomyrmex

Fossil Genera

Archiponera • Cephalopone • Cyrtopone • Desyopone • Messelepone • Ponerites • Protopone • Taphopone

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• PONERINI [tribe of Ponerinae]
  • Ponerites Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 185. Type-genus: Ponera Latreille, 1804: 179.

Taxonomic History

• Ponerini as group name: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 185 [Ponérites].
• Ponerini as tribe of Poneridae: Forel, 1895b: 111 [Poneri].
• Ponerini as tribe of Ponerinae: Forel, 1893a: 163 [Ponerii]; Emery, 1895j: 767 [Ponerii]; Forel, 1899c: 2 [Ponerii]; Emery, 1901a: 36 [Ponerii]; Ruzsky, 1905b: 174 [Ponerii]; Ashmead, 1905b: 382 [Ponerini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 135 [Ponerii]; Emery, 1911d: 54; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 27; Arnold, 1915: 36; Forel, 1917: 237; Gallardo, 1918b: 7; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 638, 646; subsequent authors; Bolton, 2003: 43, 158; Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 52.
• Ponerini as senior synonym of Centromyrmecini: Brown, 1953c: 9.
• Ponerini as senior synonym of Leptogenyini: Brown, 1963: 3.
• Ponerini as senior synonym of Dorylozelini: Taylor, 1969: 132.
• Ponerini as senior synonym of *Archiponerini, Drepanognathini, Euponerinae, Harpegnathini, Odontomachidae, Pachycondylinae and Plectroctenini: Bolton, 1994: 164.
• Ponerini as senior synonym of Pseudoneoponerini: Bolton, 2003: 43.
• Ponerini as senior synonym of Thaumatomyrmecini: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 46.