Gesomyrmecini Ashmead 1905

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 : 347

Tribe Gesomyrmecini Ashmead 1905

= Dimorphomyrmii Emery 1895 = Gesomyrmini Forel 1912

= † Sicelomyrmicini Wheeler 1929

Genera: Gesomyrmex , † Prodimorphomyrmex , † Sicilomyrmex .

Comments. The tribe Gesomyrmecini is here restricted to Gesomyrmex and two similar fossil taxa ( Wheeler 1915). Bolton (2003) also placed Santschiella in Gesomyrmecini , but the molecular results do not support a close relationship between Gesomyrmex and Santschiella ( Blaimer et al. 2015) . The similarities between the two—very large eyes, widely separated antennal insertions, and scapes that pass below the eyes ( Bolton 2003)—must be interpreted as due to convergence.