Santschiellini Forel 1917

Ward, Philip S., Blaimer, Bonnie B. & Fisher, Brian L., 2016, A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex, Zootaxa 4072 (3), pp. 343-357 : 349

Tribe Santschiellini Forel 1917 stat. rev.

Genus: Santschiella (tribal transfer)

Comments. We resurrect the tribe Santschiellini for this monotypic West African genus due to uncertainty about its position within the formicine tree ( Blaimer et al. 2015). It appears to be the sister group of the Neotropical genus Gigantiops but there is only moderate support for this hypothesis. See previous discussion under Gesomyrmecini and Gigantiopini .