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: Antennoclypeata according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2020
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, 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 taxa: Brownimeciinae, Cananeuretus, Canapone, Formicinae, Ponerinae
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 (5), 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), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (4), Lithuania (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (28), Ukraine (9), the United Kingdom (5), United States (21: Arkansas, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: Alberta), Myanmar (1)
Total: 145 collections including 440 occurrences