Ponerinae
fighting Harpegnathos saltator
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae Lepeletier, 1835
Genera
See text

Ponerinae is a subfamily of ants in the Poneromorph subfamilies group, with about 1,600 species in 28 extant genera, including Dinoponera gigantea - one of the world's largest species of ant.

They are most easily identified from other sub-families by a constricted gaster (abdomen).

[edit] Tribes

• Platythyreini - only one genus Platythyrea
• Ponerini
• Thaumatomyrmecini - Thaumatomyrmex

[edit] Genera

• Afropone (extinct)
• Anochetus (115 species)
• Asphinctopone (3 species)
• Belonopelta (3 species)
• Boloponera (1 species)
• Centromyrmex (18 species)
• Cryptopone (25 species)
• Diacamma (51 species)
• Dinoponera (9 species)
• Dolioponera (1 species)
• Emeryopone (5 species)
• Eogorgites (extinct)
• Eoponerites (extinct)
• Feroponera (1 species)
• Furcisutura (extinct)
• Harpegnathos (12 species)
• Hypoponera (343 species)
• Leptoponera (339 species)
• Loboponera (11 species)
• Longicapitia (extinct)
• Myopias (38 species)
• Odontomachus (66 species)
• Odontoponera (7 species)
• Pachycondyla (335 species)
• Phrynoponera (6 species)
• Platythyres (50 species)
• Plectroctena (17 species)
• Ponera (57 species)
• Promyopias (1 species)
• Psalidomyrmex (6 species)
• Simopelta (29 species)
• Streblognathus (2 species)
• Thaumatomyrmex (19 species)

Genera previously classified in Ponerinae subfamily but reclassified

• Rhytidoponera - subfamily Ectatomminae
• Discothyrea - subfamily Proceratinae
• Probolomyrmex - subfamily Proceratinae
• Proceratium - subfamily Proceratinae
• Amblyopone - subfamily Amblyoponinae
• Onychomyrmex - subfamily Amblyoponinae

[edit] External links

• Ponerinae at Antweb

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