| Ponerinae | |
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| fighting Harpegnathos saltator | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae Lepeletier, 1835 |
| Genera | |
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Ponerinae is a subfamily of ants in the Poneromorph subfamilies group, with about 1,600 species in 28 extant genera, including Dinoponera gigantea - one of the world's largest species of ant.
They are most easily identified from other sub-families by a constricted gaster (abdomen).
Genera previously classified in Ponerinae subfamily but reclassified