Dolichoderinae is a subfamily of ants, which includes species such as the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile), the erratic ant, the odorous house ant, and the cone ant. The subfamily presents a great diversity of species throughout the world, distributed in different biogeographic realms, from the Palearctic, Nearctic, Afrotropical region and Malaysia, to the Middle East, Australian, and Neotropical regions.

This subfamily is distinguished by having a single petiole (no post-petiole) and a slit-like orifice, from which chemical compounds are released. Dolichoderine ants do not possess a sting, unlike ants in some other subfamilies, such as Ponerinae and Myrmicinae, instead relying on the chemical defensive compounds produced from the anal gland.

Dolichoderinae

Of the compounds produced by dolichoderine ants, several terpenoids were identified including the previously unknown iridomyrmecin, isoiridomyrmecin, and iridodial. Such compounds are responsible for the smell given off by ants of this subfamily when crushed or disturbed.

Dolichoderinae

Tribes and genera

Bothriomyrmecini Dubovikov, 2005

Arnoldius Dubovikov, 2005

Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869

Chronoxenus Santschi, 1919

Loweriella Shattuck, 1992

Ravavy Fisher, 2009

Dolichoderini Forel, 1878

Dolichoderus Lund, 1831

Leptomyrmecini Emery, 1913

Anillidris Santschi, 1936

Anonychomyrma Donisthorpe, 1947

Azteca Forel, 1878

†Chronomyrmex McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013

Doleromyrma Forel, 1907

Dorymyrmex Mayr, 1866

Forelius Emery, 1888

Froggattella Forel, 1902

Gracilidris Wild & Cuezzo, 2006

Iridomyrmex Mayr, 1862

Leptomyrmex Mayr, 1862

Linepithema Mayr, 1866

Nebothriomyrmex Dubovikov, 2004

Ochetellus Shattuck, 1992

Papyrius Shattuck, 1992

Philidris Shattuck, 1992

Turneria Forel, 1895

†Miomyrmecini Carpenter, 1930

†Miomyrmex Carpenter, 1930

Tapinomini Emery, 1913

Aptinoma Fisher, 2009

Axinidris Weber, 1941

†Ctenobethylus Brues, 1939

Ecphorella Forel, 1909

Liometopum Mayr, 1861

Tapinoma Förster, 1850

Technomyrmex Mayr, 1872

incertae sedis

†Alloiomma Zhang, 1989

†Elaeomyrmex Carpenter, 1930

†Elaphrodites Zhang, 1989

†Eldermyrmex Heterick & Shattuck, 2011

†Emplastus Donisthorpe, 1920

†Eotapinoma Dlussky, 1988

†Eurymyrmex Zhang, Sun & Zhang, 1994

†Kotshkorkia Dlussky, 1981

†Ktunaxia Lapolla & Greenwalt, 2015

†Leptomyrmula Emery, 1913

†Petraeomyrmex Carpenter, 1930

†Proiridomyrmex Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003

†Protazteca Carpenter, 1930

†Usomyrma Dlussky, Radchenko & Dubovikoff, 2014

†Yantaromyrmex Dlussky & Dubovikoff, 2013

†Zherichinius Dlussky, 1988

See also

List of ants of Andorra

References

External links

Ant subfamilies

Taxa named by Auguste Forel

Dolichoderinae