page_title: Dolichoderinae
section_title: Tribes and genera
hierarchical_section_title: Dolichoderinae / Tribes and genera
caption_attribution_description: English: Fig. 1. Dolichoderine ant Usomyrma mirabilis gen. et sp. nov., the holotype male, ZMUC, Bórge Mortensen coll., 28.2.1965, no. 380, from the Danish Amber, late Eocene; body in lateral view. Photograph (A)
context_page_description: Dolichoderinae is a subfamily of ants, which includes species such as the Argentine ant, the erratic ant, the odorous house ant, and the cone ant. The subfamily presents a great diversity of species throughout the world, distributed in different biogeographic regions, from the Palearctic, Nearctic, Afrotropical region and Malaysia, to the Middle East, Australian, and Neotropical regions.
  This subfamily is distinguished by having a single petiole and a slit-like orifice, from which chemical compounds are released. Dolichoderine ants do not possess a sting, unlike ants in some other subfamilies, such as Ponerinae and Myrmicinae, instead relying on the chemical defensive compounds produced from the anal gland.
  Of the compounds produced by dolichoderine ants, several terpenoids were identified including the previously unknown iridomyrmecin, isoiridomyrmecin, and iridodial. Such compounds are responsible for the smell given off by ants of this subfamily when crushed or disturbed.
context_section_description: Bothriomyrmecini Dubovikov, 2005
  Arnoldius Dubovikov, 2005
  Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869
  Chronoxenus Santschi, 1919
  Loweriella Shattuck, 1992
  Ravavy Fisher, 2009
  Dolichoderini Forel, 1878
  Dolichoderus Lund, 1831
  Leptomyrmecini Emery, 1913
  Anillidris Santschi, 1936
  Anonychomyrma Donisthorpe, 1947
  Azteca Forel, 1878
  †Chronomyrmex McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013
  Doleromyrma Forel, 1907
  Dorymyrmex Mayr, 1866
  Forelius Emery, 1888
  Froggattella Forel, 1902
  Gracilidris Wild & Cuezzo, 2006
  Iridomyrmex Mayr, 1862
  Leptomyrmex Mayr, 1862
  Linepithema Mayr, 1866
  Nebothriomyrmex Dubovikov, 2004
  Ochetellus Shattuck, 1992
  Papyrius Shattuck, 1992
  Philidris Shattuck, 1992
  Turneria Forel, 1895
  †Usomyrma Dlussky, Radchenko & Dubovikoff, 2014
  Tapinomini Emery, 1913
  Aptinoma Fisher, 2009
  Axinidris Weber, 1941
  †Ctenobethylus Brues, 1939
  Ecphorella Forel, 1909
  Liometopum Mayr, 1861
  Tapinoma Förster, 1850
  Technomyrmex Mayr, 1872
  incertae sedis
  †Alloiomma Zhang, 1989
  †Asymphylomyrmex Wheeler, 1915
  †Elaeomyrmex Carpenter, 1930
  †Elaphrodites Zhang, 1989
  †Eldermyrmex Heterick & Shattuck, 2011
  †Emplastus Donisthorpe, 1920
  †Eotapinoma Dlussky, 1988
  †Eurymyrmex Zhang, Sun & Zhang, 1994
  †Kotshkorkia Dlussky, 1981
  †Ktunaxia Lapolla & Greenwalt, 2015
  †Leptomyrmula Emery, 1913
  †Miomyrmex Carpenter, 1930
  †Petraeomyrmex Carpenter, 1930
  †Proiridomyrmex Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003
  †Protazteca Carpenter, 1930
  †Yantaromyrmex Dlussky & Dubovikoff, 2013
  †Zherichinius Dlussky, 1988
caption: Usomyrma mirabilis
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