Camponotini

Camponotini
Camponotus ligniperda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini Forel, 1878
Type genus
Camponotus Mayr, 1861
Diversity
13 genera

Camponotini is a tribe of ants in the subfamily Formicinae containing 2 extinct and 11 extant genera, including Camponotus (carpenter ants). ^[1] This tribe is the most diverse tribe in its subfamily, containing over 2,500 species. ^[2] Ants in the Camponotini tribe are the primary hosts of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis , also called the zombie-ant fungus. ^[3]

Genera

• Calomyrmex Emery, 1895
• Camponotus Mayr, 1861
• † Chimaeromyrma Dlussky, 1988
• Colobopsis Mayr, 1861
• Dinomyrmex Ashmead, 1905
• Echinopla Smith, 1857
• Lathidris Ward et al, 2025
• Opisthopsis Dalla Torre, 1893
• Overbeckia Viehmeyer, 1916
• Polyrhachis Smith, 1857
• † Pseudocamponotus Carpenter, 1930
• Retalimyrma Ward et al, 2025
• Uwari Ward et al, 2025

Phylogeny

Ward et al. 2025 provides this as the maximum-probability cladogram. ^[2]

Camponotini	Colobopsis Opisthopsis Uwari Lathidris Dinomyrmex Polyrhachis Retalimyrma Camponotus Echinopla Calomyrmex Overbeckia

References

1. Bolton, B. (2014). "Camponotini". AntCat. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
2. Ward, Philip S.; Fisher, Brian L.; Wernegreen, Jennifer J.; Blaimer, Bonnie B. (2025). "Evolutionary history, novel lineages and symbiont coevolution in the ant tribe Camponotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Systematic Entomology. 50 (3): 646–676. doi: 10.1111/syen.12678 . ISSN   0307-6970.
3. Araújo JP, Evans HC, Kepler R, Hughes DP (June 2018). "Ophiocordyceps. I. Myrmecophilous hirsutelloid species". Studies in Mycology. 90: 119–160. doi: 10.1016/j.simyco.2017.12.002 . PMC   6002356 . PMID   29910522.