Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Synonym: Prenolepidini Forel 1912
Full reference: W. H. Ashmead. 1905. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. The Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384
Parent taxon: Formicinae according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2022
See also Ashmead 1905, Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, Ward et al. 2016 and Wheeler 1915
Sister taxa: Andrena tertiaria, Attopsis, Camponotini, Camponotites, Curtipalpulus, Drymomyrmex, Eoleptocerites, Formica fragilis, Formicini, Fushuniformica, Gesomyrmecini, Heeridris, Huaxiaformica, Imhoffia, Kyromyrma, Leptogasteritus, Leucotaphus, Liaoformica, Longiformica, Magnogasterites, Myrmecorhynchus, Oecophyllini, Orbicapitia, Ovalicapito, Ovaligastrula, Palaeosminthurus, Palaeosminthurus juliae, Plagiolepidini, Protrechina, Sinoformica, Sinotenuicapito, Wilsonia
Subtaxa: Euprenolepis Lasius Metalasius Nylanderia Paratrechina Prenolepis Pseudolasius Sussudio Zatania
Type: Lasius
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Colombia (2 collections), France (1), Japan (1), Portugal (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (3), Croatia (8), the Dominican Republic (2), France (2), Germany (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Idaho)
• Oligocene of France (3), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of Belarus (1), Denmark (1), Germany (2), Lithuania (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (22), Ukraine (7), United States (9: Colorado, Montana)
Total: 76 collections including 156 occurrences