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Stenammini
| Stenammini | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Stenammini Ashmead, 1905 |
| Type genus | |
| Stenamma | |
| Diversity | |
| 7 genera 508 species 1 fossil genera 22 fossil species | |
| Synonyms | |
Characteristic features of the Stenammini are the distribution of the vast majority of its representatives in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, and the evolution of many genera toward adaptation to granivory: five of the seven genera are specialised harvesters inhabiting arid and semiarid landscapes (Bernard, 1967, 1974; Arnoldi, 1976; Collingwood, 1978; Dlussky, 1981; Tohmé G. & Tohmé H., 1981; Bolton, 1982; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996; Demarco & Cognato, 2015; Salata & Borowiec, 2015; Johnson et al., 2022). Among them, Goniomma and Oxyopomyrmex are Palaearctic endemics, Novomessor and Veromessor are Nearctic endemics, and in the predominantly Palaearctic genus Messor, only a small number of species are distributed in the arid regions of the Afrotropics, Arabian peninsula, Pakistan and India. At the same time, representatives of Stenamma inhabit mesophytous temperate and partly tropical forests, and Aphaenogaster species live both in temperate deciduous forests and in open semiarid landscapes. [This section modified from Radchenko et al. (2024).]
Identification
List of Genera
Extant Genera
Fossil Genera
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- STENAMMINI [tribe of Myrmicinae]
- Stenammini Ashmead, 1905b: 383. Type-genus: Stenamma Westwood, 1839: 219.
Taxonomic History
- Stenammini as subtribe of Pheidolini: Emery, 1921f: 52.
- Stenammini as subtribe of Myrmicini: Emery, 1924d: 357.
- Stenammini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Ashmead, 1905b: 383; Bolton, 1994: 106; Bolton, 2003: 58, 202.
- Stenammini as senior synonym of Calyptomyrmecini and Proattini: Bolton, 1994: 106.
- Stenammini as senior synonym of Aphaenogastrini: Ward, et al. 2015: 76.
Taxonomic References
Emery, 1921f: 52 (diagnosis, catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 106 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1042 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 16 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003: 58, 202 (diagnosis, synopsis); Fernández, 2003d: 325 (Neotropical genera); Xu, 2012b: 333 (genera key); Ward, et al. 2015: 67 (reclassification).