Plagiolepidini Forel 1886

Ward, Philip S., Blaimer, Bonnie B. & Fisher, Brian L., 2016, A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex, Zootaxa 4072 (3), pp. 343-357 : 348

Tribe Plagiolepidini Forel 1886

= Bregmatomyrminii Wheeler 1929

Genera: Acropyga (tribal transfer), Agraulomyrmex , Anoplolepis (tribal transfer), Aphomomyrmex , Bregmatomyrma , Lepisiota , Petalomyrmex , Plagiolepis , Tapinolepis .

Comments. A number of genera previously placed in Plagiolepidini , such as Brachymyrmex , Myrmelachista , Nylanderia , and Prenolepis , are here transferred elsewhere (to either Lasiini or Myrmelachistini ), and the tribe is now comprised exclusively of Old World taxa, except for the cosmopolitan Acropyga . The placement of Bregmatomyrma has not been evaluated with sequence data, and its retention in Plagiolepidini remains provisional. A taxonomic revision of the plagiolepidine genera is overdue.