{{short description|Tribe of insects}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Camponotus sideview 2.jpg | image_caption = ''Camponotus ligniperda'' | taxon = Camponotini | authority = Forel, 1878 | type_genus = ''Camponotus'' | type_genus_authority = Mayr, 1861 |diversity_link = #Genera | diversity = 13 genera }}
'''Camponotini''' is a tribe of ants in the subfamily Formicinae containing 2 extinct and 11 extant genera, including ''Camponotus'' (carpenter ants).<ref name="AntCat"/> This tribe is the most diverse tribe in its subfamily, containing over 2,500 species.<ref name="Ward-et-al-2025">{{cite journal |last1=Ward |first1=Philip S. |last2=Fisher |first2=Brian L. |last3=Wernegreen |first3=Jennifer J. |last4=Blaimer |first4=Bonnie B. |title=Evolutionary history, novel lineages and symbiont coevolution in the ant tribe Camponotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) |journal=Systematic Entomology |volume=50 |issue=3 |date=2025 |issn=0307-6970 |doi=10.1111/syen.12678 |doi-access=free |pages=646–676}}</ref> Ants in the Camponotini tribe are the primary hosts of ''Ophiocordyceps unilateralis'', also called the zombie-ant fungus.<ref name = "Araujo2018">{{cite journal | vauthors = Araújo JP, Evans HC, Kepler R, Hughes DP | title = Ophiocordyceps. I. Myrmecophilous hirsutelloid species | journal = Studies in Mycology | volume = 90 | pages = 119–160 | date = June 2018 | pmid = 29910522 | doi = 10.1016/j.simyco.2017.12.002 | pmc = 6002356 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
==Genera== * ''Calomyrmex'' <small>Emery, 1895</small> * ''Camponotus'' <small>Mayr, 1861</small> * †''Chimaeromyrma'' <small>Dlussky, 1988</small> * ''Colobopsis'' <small>Mayr, 1861</small> * ''Dinomyrmex'' <small>Ashmead, 1905</small> * ''Echinopla'' <small>Smith, 1857</small> * ''Lathidris'' <small>Ward et al, 2025</small> * ''Opisthopsis'' <small>Dalla Torre, 1893</small> * ''Overbeckia'' <small>Viehmeyer, 1916</small> * ''Polyrhachis'' <small>Smith, 1857</small> * †''Pseudocamponotus'' <small>Carpenter, 1930</small> * ''Retalimyrma'' <small>Ward et al, 2025</small> * ''Uwari'' <small>Ward et al, 2025</small> ==Phylogeny== Ward et al. 2025 provides this as the maximum-probability cladogram.<ref name="Ward-et-al-2025"/> {{clade |style = font-size:100%; line-height:100% |label1='''Camponotini''' |1={{clade |1=''Colobopsis'' |2={{clade |1={{clade |1=''Opisthopsis'' |2=''Uwari'' }} |2={{clade |1=''Lathidris'' |2={{clade |1=''Dinomyrmex'' |2={{clade |1=''Polyrhachis'' |2={{clade |1=''Retalimyrma'' |2={{clade |1=''Camponotus'' |2={{clade |1=''Echinopla'' |2={{clade |1=''Calomyrmex'' |2=''Overbeckia'' }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} ==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="AntCat">{{AntCat|429240|Camponotini|2014|accessdate=20 August 2014}}</ref> }}
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Category:Formicinae Category:Ant tribes
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