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===Agroecomyrmecinae=== The subfamily [[Agroecomyrmecinae]] represents two extant genera and two fossil genera, once widespread in both hemispheres during the early [[Tertiary]].<ref name="AntCat_Agroecomyrmecinae">{{AntCat|430014|Agroecomyrmecinae|2015|accessdate=5 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Brown_Kempf_1968">{{cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=W. L. Jr. |last2=Kempf |first2=W. W. |year=1968|title=''Tatuidris'', a remarkable new genus of Formicidae (Hymenoptera). |journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |volume=74 |pages=183β190 |doi=10.5281/zenodo.27017|id={{zenodo|27017}}}}</ref> The subfamily was originally classified as Agroecomyrmecini, a [[Myrmicinae]] tribe until English [[myrmecology|myrmecologist]] [[Barry Bolton]] raised the tribe to subfamily status in 2003.<ref name="Carpenter_1930">{{cite journal|last1=Carpenter|first1=F.M.|title=The fossil ants of North America|journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology|date=1930|volume=70|pages=1β66|url=http://antbase.org/ants/publications/6082/6082.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Bolton_2003"/> Most specimens collected are from [[Central America]] and [[Mexico]], although one [[type specimen]] of an Agroecomyrmecinae species was collected from [[Ghana]].<ref name="Donoso_2012">{{cite journal|last1=Donoso |first1=D.A. |year=2012 |title=Additions to the taxonomy of the armadillo ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, ''Tatuidris''). |journal=[[Zootaxa]] |volume=3503 |pages=61β81 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3503.1.5 |url=http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/zt03503p081.pdf}}</ref> {|class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;text-align:center" !colspan="100%" align="center" bgcolor=#d3d3a4|[[Agroecomyrmecinae]] <small>Carpenter, 1930</small> |- !Genus name !Binomial authority !Classified !No. of species !Type species !class="unsortable"|Example image !class="unsortable"|{{nowrap|{{Abbr|Ref(s)|References}}}} |- | {{sort|Agroecomyrmex|β ''[[Agroecomyrmex]]''}} | Wheeler | 1910 | 1 | {{sort|Myrmica duisburgi|β ''[[Agroecomyrmex duisburgi|Myrmica duisburgi]]''}} | [[File:Agroecomyrmex_duisburgi_BMNHP18831_01.jpg|thumb|center|upright|β ''Agroecomyrmex duisburgi'']] | <ref name="Wheeler_1910a">{{cite journal|last1=Wheeler|first1=W.M.|title=Three new genera of myrmicine ants from tropical America|journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History|date=1910|volume=28|pages=259β265|doi=10.5281/zenodo.25138}}<!--AntCatId:130047--></ref><ref name="Wheeler_1915">{{cite journal |last1=Wheeler |first1=W. M. |year=1915 |title= The ants of the Baltic amber |journal=Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=1β142|url=http://antcat.org/documents/3494/3323.pdf|doi=10.5281/zenodo.25147}}</ref> |- | ''[[Ankylomyrma]]'' | Bolton | 1973 | 1 | ''[[Ankylomyrma coronacantha]]'' | [[File:Ankylomyrma_coronacantha_casent0005904_profile_1.jpg|thumb|center|upright|''Ankylomyrma coronacantha'']] | <ref name="Bolton_1973">{{cite journal|last1=Bolton|first1=B.|title=A remarkable new arboreal ant genus (Hym. Formicidae) from West Africa|journal=Entomologist's Monthly Magazine|date=1973|volume=108|pages=234β237|url=http://antcat.org/documents/247/6426.pdf}}</ref> |- | {{sort|Eulithomyrmex|β ''[[Eulithomyrmex]]''}} | Carpenter | 1935 | 2 | {{sort|Lithomyrmex rugosus|β ''[[Eulithomyrmex rugosus|Lithomyrmex rugosus]]''}} | [[File:Eulithomyrmex_rugosus_UCM17019_whole.jpg|thumb|center|upright|β ''Eulithomyrmex rugosus'']] | <ref name="Carpenter_1935">{{cite journal |last1=Carpenter |first1=F. M. |year=1935 |title=A New Name for ''Lithomyrmex'' Carp. (Hymenoptera) |journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |volume=42 |page=91 |doi=10.1155/1935/68604 |issue=2|url=http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/images/f/f2/Carpenter_1935.pdf|doi-access=free }}</ref> |- | ''[[Tatuidris]]'' | Brown & Kempf | 1968 | 1 | ''[[Tatuidris tatusia]]'' | [[File:Tatuidris_tatusia_psw7891-9_profile_1.jpg|thumb|center|upright|''Tatuidris tatusia'']] | <ref name="Brown_Kempf_1968"/> |- |}
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