Ponerinae

Ponerinae Temporal range: Turonian-Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fighting Harpegnathos saltator
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae Lepeletier, 1835
Type genus
Ponera Latreille, 1804
Diversity[1]
59 genera

Ponerinae, the ponerine ants,^[2] is a subfamily of ants in the Poneromorph subfamilies group, with about 1,600 species in 47 extant genera, including Dinoponera gigantea - one of the world's largest species of ant. Mated workers have replaced the queen as the functional egg-layers in several species of ponerine ants. In such queenless species, the reproductive status of workers can only be determined through ovarian dissections.^{[citation needed]}