Myrmicini

The tribe Myrmicini belongs to the subfamily Myrmicinae. For a list of genera contained within this tribe see Myrmicini genera, for species see Myrmicini species.

Synopsis
Tribe MYRMICINI Myrmicites Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 169. Type-genus: Myrmica. Taxonomic history Myrmicini as group name: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 169 [Myrmicites]. Myrmicini as tribe of Myrmicidae: Forel, 1891b: 143. Myrmicini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Forel, 1893a: 164 [Myrmicii]; Forel, 1895b: 124 [Myrmicii]; Forel, 1899c: 52 [Myrmicii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 139 [Myrmicii]; Ashmead, 1905b: 383; Emery, 1914a: 35; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 51; Forel, 1917: 240; Emery, 1921f: 35; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 655; all subsequent authors. Genera of Myrmicini: Eutetramorium, Huberia, Hylomyrma, Manica, Myrmica, *Plesiomyrmex, Pogonomyrmex, *Protomyrmica,  Secostruma.

Tribe Myrmicini references Emery, 1895j: 768 (diagnosis); Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 139 (diagnosis); Emery, 1914a: 35, 40 (diagnosis (in key), synoptic classification); Forel, 1917: 240 (synoptic classification); Emery, 1921f: 35 (diagnosis, genera key, catalogue); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 660 (genera key); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 53 (larvae, review & synthesis); Kugler, C. 1978a: 414 (sting structure); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16 (synoptic classification); Brandão, 1991: 390 (Neotropical fauna, synoptic classification); Bolton, 1994: 106 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1041 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 13 (catalogue); Fernández, 2003d: 319 (Neotropical genera); Bolton, 2003: 61, 220 (diagnosis, synopsis); Jansen & Savolainen, 2010: 482 (phylogeny of tribe).