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Myrmeciinae is a subfamily of the Formicidae, once found worldwide but now restricted to Australia and New Caledonia. This subfamily is one of several ant subfamilies which possess gamergates, female worker ants which are able to mate and reproduce, thus sustaining the colony after the loss of the queen. The Myrmeciinae subfamily was formerly composed of only one genus, ''Myrmecia'', but the subfamily was redescribed by Ward & Brady in 2003 to include two tribes and four genera: An additional three genera, one form genus, and 9 species were described in 2006 from the Early Eocene of Denmark, Canada, and Washington. ==Tribes and genera== *Tribe Myrmeciini Emery, 1877 * *''Myrmecia'' Fabricius, 1804 *Tribe Prionomyrmecini Wheeler, 1915 * *''Nothomyrmecia'' Clark, 1934 * *†''Prionomyrmex'' Mayr, 1868 *Tribe ''incertae sedis'' * *†''Archimyrmex'' Cockerell, 1923 * *†''Avitomyrmex'' Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006 * *†''Macabeemyrma'' Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006 * *†''Ypresiomyrma'' Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006 *Form genus (for species belonging to the subfamily but not identifiable to current genera) * *†''Myrmeciites'' Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Myrmeciinae」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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