Camponotini is a tribe containing 2 extinct ant genera and 8 extant ant genera, including Camponotus (carpenter ants).[1] Ants in the Camponotini tribe are the primary hosts of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, also called the zombie-ant fungus.[2]
Camponotini | |
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Camponotus ligniperda | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Camponotini Forel, 1878 |
Type genus | |
Camponotus Mayr, 1861
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Genera
edit- Calomyrmex Emery, 1895
- Camponotus Mayr, 1861
- †Chimaeromyrma Dlussky, 1988
- Colobopsis Mayr, 1861
- Dinomyrmex Ashmead, 1905
- Echinopla Smith, 1857
- Opisthopsis Dalla Torre, 1893
- Overbeckia Viehmeyer, 1916
- Polyrhachis Smith, 1857
- †Pseudocamponotus Carpenter, 1930
References
edit- ^ Bolton, B. (2014). "Camponotini". AntCat. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ Araújo JP, Evans HC, Kepler R, Hughes DP (June 2018). "Ophiocordyceps. I. Myrmecophilous hirsutelloid species". Studies in Mycology. 90: 119–160. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2017.12.002. PMC 6002356. PMID 29910522.