| Pseudomyrmecinae | |
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| Pseudomyrmex gracilis (elongate twig ant) worker | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Pseudomyrmecinae Smith, 1952 |
| Tribe: | Pseudomyrmecini Smith, 1952 |
| Type genus | |
| Pseudomyrmex Lund, 1831
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Pseudomyrmecinae is a small subfamily of ants containing three genera of slender, large-eyed arboreal ants, predominantly tropical or subtropical in distribution.[1] In the course of adapting to arboreal conditions (unlike the predominantly ground-dwelling myrmeciins), the pseudomyrmecines diversified and came to occupy and retain a much wider geographic range.[2]
Pseudomyrmecines consists of 230 described species in three genera. Among those, 32 species live in plant domatia, making them the most diverse plant-occupying ant group worldwide.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
AWPseudomyrmecinaewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Ward, Philip S.; Downie, Douglas A. (2005). "The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants: Phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants". Systematic Entomology. 30 (2): 310–335. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00281.x.