Platythyreini Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau 1835
Creators: name: Boudinot, Brendon E.
name: Richter, Adrian K.
name: Hammel, Jörg U.
name: Szwedo, Jacek
name: Bojarski, Błażej
name: Perrichot, Vincent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae

description: Subfamily Ponerinae Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835. <i>Type genus</i>. <i>Ponera</i> Latreille, 1804. <i>Male diagnosis</i>. Males of Ponerinae are best identified at the tribal level as there are as yet no clear male-based synapomorphies for the subfamily. Male Ponerinae share the following key diagnostic plesiomorphies: (1) wing venation complete or nearly complete, with at least four closed cells present; (2) petiole without tergosternal fusion; (3) abdominal segment III not petiolated; and (4) abdominal sternum IX without prongs or teeth. <i>Remarks</i>. The diagnosis provided for Ponerinae above and Platythyreini and Ponerini below collectively represent a revision of the global diagnosis for the subfamily of Boudinot [42]. Male Ponerinae have previously been diagnosed for the Malagasy region [47] and Japan [48, 49]. No single character has been discovered yet that uniquely identifies all male Ponerinae. Presence of posterolateral processes on the petiolar sternum which contact the outer margins of the helcial tergite, recognized as a ponerine synapomorphy for the female castes [46], are either poorly developed in males or obscured by the petiolar tergite, thus necessitating focused study. Notably, whereas female Ponerinae display a high degree of specialization with respect to mandibular and leg characters, these are universally lacking in the conspecific male.
description: Published as part of <i>Boudinot, Brendon E., Richter, Adrian K., Hammel, Jörg U., Szwedo, Jacek, Bojarski, Błażej &amp; Perrichot, Vincent, 2022, Genomic-Phenomic Reciprocal Illumination: Desyopone hereon gen. et sp. nov., an Exceptional Aneuretine-like Fossil Ant from Ethiopian Amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae), pp. 1-19 in Insects 73 (796)</i> on page 7, DOI: 10.3390/insects13090796, http://zenodo.org/record/7046409
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