Haidomyrmecinae


Haidomyrmecinae, occasionally called Hell ants, are an extinct subfamily of ants in family Formicidae known from a series of Cretaceous fossils found in ambers of North America, Europe, and Asia. The subfamily was first proposed in 2003, but had been subsequently treated as the tribe Haidomyrmecini and placed in the extinct ant subfamily Sphecomyrminae. Reevaluation of Haidomyrmecini in 2020 lead to the elevation of the group back to subfamily. The family contains the nine genera and thirteen species.

Genera

Along with the type genus Haidomyrmex, the subfamily contains nine genera and thirteen species.