Myrmelachistini

Myrmelachistini
Brachymyrmex depilis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Myrmelachistini

Myrmelachistini is a tribe of ants in the family of Formicidae. There are at least 2 genera and 50 described species in Myrmelachistini. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

In 2016, the tribe Myrmelachistini was resurrected and the genera Brachymyrmex and Myrmelachista were transferred to it from the tribe Plagiolepidini. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Brachymyrmex patagonicus

Genera

• Brachymyrmex Mayr, 1868 (rover ants)
• Myrmelachista Roger, 1863

References

1. "Myrmelachistini Tribe Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
2. "Myrmelachistini Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
3. "Myrmelachistini Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
4. "AntWeb". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
5. Ward, Philip S.; Blaimer, Bonnie B.; Fisher, Brian L. (2016). "A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae(Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex". Zootaxa. 4072 (3). Magnolia Press: 343–57. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4 . PMID   27395929.
6. Christopher M. Wilson; Autumn Smith-Herron (2016). "Morphology of the male genitalia of Brachymyrmex and their implications in the Formicinae phylogeny" (PDF). Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 50. Pensoft Publishers: 81–95. doi: 10.3897/JHR.50.8697 . ISSN   1070-9428. S2CID   6859766.
7. "AntWeb". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2018-03-10.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Bolton, B.; Alpert, G.; Naskrecki, S.; Ward, P. (2007). A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World 1758–2005.
• Sharkey, M.J. (2007). "Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera". Zootaxa. 309: 13–48.
• Sharkey, M.J.; Carpenter, J.M.; Vilhelmsen, L. (2012). "Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera". Cladistics. 28 (1): 80–112. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.721.8852 . doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00366.x . PMID   34861753. S2CID   33628659.
• Ward, P.S. (2007). "Phylogeny, classification, and species-level taxonomy of ants". Zootaxa. 1668. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.26.