Sphecomyrminae

Subfamily *SPHECOMYRMINAE *Sphecomyrminae Wilson & Brown, in Wilson, Carpenter & Brown, 1967: 6. Type-genus:*Sphecomyrma. Taxonomic history *Sphecomyrminae as family: Dlussky, 1983: 77 [*Sphecomyrmidae]; Dlussky, 1987: 132 [*Sphecomyrmidae]; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77 [*Sphecomyrmidae]. *Sphecomyrminae as subfamily of Formicidae: Wilson, Carpenter & Brown, 1967: 6; Dlussky, 1975: 114; Wilson, 1987: 49; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9; Bolton, 1994: 184; Dlussky, 1996: 83; Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997: 7; Dlussky, 1999a: 63; Bolton, 2003: 74, 260. *Sphecomyrminae as stem ant subfamily of Formicidae: Ward, 2007a: 555. Tribes of *Sphecomyrminae: *Haidomyrmecini, *Sphecomyrmini. Subfamily and tribes references Bolton, 2003: 74, 260 (diagnoses, comments, synopsis).