Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
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: Myrmicinae according to K. Jessen 2020
See also Ashmead 1905, Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012 and Ward et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Afromyrma, Agastomyrma, Aphaenogaster longaeva, Attini, Biamomyrma, Bilobomyrma, Boltonidris, Brachytarsites, Cephalomyrmex, Cephites, Clavipetiola, Crematogastrini, Electromyrmex, Enneamerus, Eocenidris, Eomyrmex, Fallomyrma, Formica cordata, Fushunomyrmex, Ilemomyrmex, Lelejus, Melissotarsus, Miosolenopsis, Myrmecites, Myrmicini, Orbigastrula, Pogonomyrmecini, Pseudomyrmini, Quadrulicapito, Quineangulicapito, Sinomyrmex, Solenopsidiini, Solenopsidini, Solenopsites, Sphaerogasterites, Wumyrmex, Zhangidris
Subtaxa: Aphaenogaster Goniomma Messor Paraphaenogaster Stenamma Veromessor
Type: Stenamma
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection), United States (3: California)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (4), Croatia (3), the Dominican Republic (1), Germany (4), Japan (1), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), United States (2: Alaska, Idaho)
• Oligocene of France (3), Germany (7), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (9: Colorado)
Total: 51 collections including 81 occurrences