Dolichoderinae

Subfamily of ants

Dolichoderinae

Iridomyrmex purpureus feeding on honey
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Hymenoptera
Family:  | Formicidae
Subfamily:  | Dolichoderinae
Forel, 1878
Type genus
Dolichoderus

Lund, 1831

Diversity[1]
48 genera

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.[2]

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.[3]

Of the compounds produced by dolichoderine ants, several terpenoids were identified including the previously unknown iridomyrmecin, isoiridomyrmecin, and iridodial.[4] Such compounds are responsible for the smell given off by ants of this subfamily when crushed or disturbed.[citation needed]

## Tribes and genera

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* 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

Usomyrma mirabilis

## See also

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* List of ants of Andorra

## References

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1. ^ Bolton, B. (2015). "Dolichoderinae". AntCat. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
2. ^ Cardoso, D.; Cristiano, M. P.; Barros, L. S.; Lopes, D.; Pompolo, S. (2012). "First cytogenetic characterization of a species of the arboreal ant genus Azteca Forel, 1978 (Dolichoderinae, Formicidae)". Comparative Cytogenetics. 6 (2): 107–14\. Bibcode:2012ComCy...6..107C. doi:10.3897/CompCytogen.v6i2.2397. PMC 3833797. PMID 24260655.
3. ^ Fisher, Brian L. and Stefan P. Cover (2007) Ants of North America: a guide to the genera
4. ^ Wilson, E. O.; Pavan, M. (1959). "Glandular Sources and Specificity of Some Chemical Releasers of Social Behavior in Dolichoderine Ants". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 66 (4): 70. doi:10.1155/1959/45675.

* This article incorporates text from a scholarly publication published under a copyright license that allows anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the materials in any form for any purpose: Cardoso, D.; Cristiano, M. P.; Barros, L. S.; Lopes, D.; Pompolo, S. (2012). "First cytogenetic characterization of a species of the arboreal ant genus Azteca Forel, 1978 (Dolichoderinae, Formicidae)". Comparative Cytogenetics. 6 (2): 107–14\. Bibcode:2012ComCy...6..107C. doi:10.3897/CompCytogen.v6i2.2397. PMC 3833797. PMID 24260655. Please check the source for the exact licensing terms.

## External links

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* Media related to Dolichoderinae at Wikimedia Commons

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Ant taxonomy

* Kingdom Animalia
* Phylum Arthropoda
* Class Insecta
* Order Hymenoptera
* Family Formicidae

Subfamilies|

| Extant|

* Agroecomyrmecinae
* Amblyoponinae
* Aneuretinae
* Apomyrminae
* Dolichoderinae
* Dorylinae
* Ectatomminae
* Formicinae
* Leptanillinae
* Martialinae
* Myrmeciinae
* Myrmicinae
* Paraponerinae
* Ponerinae
* Proceratiinae
* Pseudomyrmecinae

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Extinct|

* †Armaniinae
* †Brownimeciinae
* †Formiciinae
* †Haidomyrmecinae
* †Sphecomyrminae

Genera|

* List of ant genera
* incertae sedis

Taxon identifiers

Dolichoderinae|

* Wikidata: Q385326
* Wikispecies: Dolichoderinae
* ADW: Dolichoderinae
* AFD: Dolichoderinae
* BugGuide: 31341
* CoL: JGK
* Fauna Europaea: 81147
* Fauna Europaea (new): c882a491-076d-48a2-b0d4-5bad881ac6aa
* iNaturalist: 244394
* ITIS: 573820
* NBN: NHMSYS0000875838
* NCBI: 40139
* Paleobiology Database: 70729

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