Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Alternative spelling: Dolichoderidae
Full reference: A. Forel. 1878. Études myrmécologiques en 1878 (première partie) avec l'anatomie du gésier des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 15:337-392
Parent taxon: Dolichoderomorpha according to J. T. Oberski et al. 2025
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, Boudinot et al. 2020, Coty et al. 2014, Dlussky and Perfilieva 2014, Dlussky et al. 2014, Dlussky et al. 2015, Emery 1913, Forel 1878, Hong and Wang 1985 and Wappler 2003
Sister taxon: Aneuretinae
Subtaxa: Alloiomma Asymphylomyrmex Bothriomyrmecini Dlusskyus Dolichoderini Dolichoderus obliteratus Elaeomyrmex Elaphrodites Eldermyrmex Emplastus Eotapinoma Eurymyrmex Kotshkorkia Ktunaxia Leptomyrmecini Leptomyrmula Liometopum Miomyrmecini Petraeomyrmex Proiridomyrmex Protazteca Tapinomini Usomyrma Zherichiniini
Type: Dolichoderus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Colombia (2 collections), the Dominican Republic (1), Indonesia (1), Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (7), Croatia (5), the Dominican Republic (18), Ethiopia (4), Germany (4), Italy (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (4), New Zealand (1), Peru (1), Ukraine (1), United States (2: Alaska, Idaho)
• Oligocene of France (3), Germany (2), the Russian Federation (2)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of Belarus (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Czechia (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (4), India (1), Lithuania (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (29), Ukraine (10), the United Kingdom (5), United States (21: Arkansas, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: Alberta), Myanmar (1)
Total: 147 collections including 441 occurrences