Camponotini Explained

Camponotini is a tribe containing 2 extinct ant genera and 8 extant ant genera, including Camponotus (carpenter ants). Ants in the Camponotini tribe are the primary hosts of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, also called the zombie-ant fungus.^[1]

Genera

• Calomyrmex Emery, 1895
• Camponotus Mayr, 1861
• †Chimaeromyrma Dlussky, 1988
• Colobopsis Mayr, 1861
• Dinomyrmex Ashmead, 1905
• Echinopla Smith, 1857
• Opisthopsis Dalla Torre, 1893
• Overbeckia Viehmeyer, 1916
• Polyrhachis Smith, 1857
• †Pseudocamponotus Carpenter, 1930

Notes and References

1. Araújo JP, Evans HC, Kepler R, Hughes DP . Ophiocordyceps. I. Myrmecophilous hirsutelloid species . Studies in Mycology . 90 . 119–160 . June 2018 . 29910522 . 10.1016/j.simyco.2017.12.002 . 6002356 . free .