Oecophyllini Emery 1895

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 Oecophyllini Emery 1895

= Oecophyllini Forel 1912

Genus: Oecophylla .

Comments. The placement of the genus Oecophylla (weaver ants) in the formicine phylogeny remains uncertain, and we continue to maintain tribal status for this taxonomically distinctive group. A sister group relationship with Gesomyrmex ( Figure 1 ) is plausible and deserves further investigation.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Phylogeny of the ant subfamily Formicinae based on 959 UCE (ultraconserved element) loci (Blaimer et al. 2015). Support values are maximum likelihood bootstrap percentages. The tree depicts six major clades, here treated as tribes, and five isolated genera subtended by long branches (Gesomyrmex, Gigantiops, Myrmoteras, Oecophylla, and Santschiella, in bold font). Note that species assigned to Camponotus occur as three separate lineages within the tribe Camponotini, and that Phasmomyrmex and Forelophilus are embedded within Camponotus (sensu stricto).