Formicidae Latreille, 1809

Boudinot, Brendon E., Richter, Adrian K., Hammel, Jörg U., Szwedo, Jacek, Bojarski, Błażej & 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), Insects 73 (796), pp. 1-19 : 6

Family Formicidae Latreille, 1809

Revision to the male-based key to global subfamilies. Due to the unconstricted condition of abdominal segment IV in † Desyopone hereon gen. et sp. nov., in addition to presence of the pleural sulcus and absence of the jugal lobe, it is necessary to revise couplet 8 from the global male-based key to subfamilies from Boudinot [ 42]. Modifications to this couplet are indicated by italics:

8. Abdominal segment IV with cinctus (=constriction) between the pre- and postsclerite or jugal lobe present or oblique mesopleural sulcus absent or indistinct or petiole without tergosternal fusion... 9 ( Ponerinae , Apomyrminae, Amblyoponinae, Proceratiinae, Dorylinae part, †Prionomyrmecini [Myrmeciinae], and Ectatomminae).

–. Abdominal segment IV without a cinctus and jugal lobe absent and oblique mesopleural sulcus always present and petiole with complete tergosternal fusion, i.e., petiolar posttergites and poststernites fused along their lengths... 19 (“Formicomorpha” sensu Bolton [ 11], i.e., Aneuretinae , Dolichoderinae , Formicinae).

Note also: An additional emendation is necessary: in couplet 11, the specimen that the lead author had previously identified as Dolioponera ( Ponerini , CASENT090028) and used for construction of the key is correctly identified as an aberrant member of Dorylinae; it may represent the unknown male of Vicinopone .