Ants

PS Ward - Current Biology, 2006 - cell.com
… part the poneroid lineages retained their predatory ways. So the success of ants rests largely
on the shoulders of the formicoids. One can imagine that if formicoids had not evolved, ants

Poneroid ants

RA Keller, C Peeters - Encyclopedia of social insects, 2021 - Springer
Polistes is a cosmopolitan genus of about 200 known species of medium-sized to large social
wasps. As their common name (paper wasp) suggests, they build a light but strong paper …

The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): generic revision and relationship to other formicids

PS Ward - Systematic Entomology, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
… (2) Within the ‘poneroid complex’ is an unresolved trichotomy composed of: (i) … (3) The
Nothomyrmeciinae are a basal lineage within the ‘poneroid complex’, rather than …

Novel tRNA gene rearrangements in the mitochondrial genomes of Poneroid ants and phylogenetic implication of Paraponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Z Xiong, D He, X Guang, Q Li - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
ants have been well studied, there is a lack of published data on the mitogenomes of
Poneroid ants… In this study, we first present three complete mitogenomes of Poneroid ants: …

Comparisons of protein and peptide complexity in poneroid and formicoid ant venoms

SR Aili, A Touchard, JMS Koh, A Dejean… - Journal of Proteome …, 2016 - ACS Publications
… Because ants use venoms for defense and predation, venomous antsponeroid ants
Neoponera commutata, Neoponera apicalis, and Odontomachus hastatus and the formicoid ants

Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants

SG Brady, TR Schultz, BL Fisher… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
poneroids) from the remaining formicoids. This arrangement tests the notion that dorylomorphs
are closely related to poneroid ants… 6, anchoring the ant tree on adjacent branches within …

The hindwings of ants: A phylogenetic analysis

S Cantone, CJ Von Zuben - Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… that we called Subclade Poneroid 2; the third group includes the genera of the Subfamily
Proceratiinae that we called Subclade Poneroid 3. Thus, in this analysis the Poneroid Clade is …

Abdominal characters and status of the cerapachyine ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

B Bolton - Journal of Natural History, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
ants. Are they worthy of subfamily status, or not? Current work on the abdominal segments of
the poneroid … relationships of the group to other poneroids are mentioned. Full descriptions …

Molecular systematics of basal subfamilies of ants using 28S rRNA (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

GD Ouellette, BL Fisher, DJ Girman - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2006 - Elsevier
… This analysis did support a more derived position for the Formicoid ants and a … of Poneroid
ants as opposed to a clade. Within the subfamily groups of poneroid and ectatommine ants, …

Army ants reassessed: the phylogeny and classification of the doryline section (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

B Bolton - Journal of Natural History, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
… of the poneroid complex, to establish the monophyly of the poneroid group, and to
establish and define the doryline section as a monophyletic group within the poneroids. The …