Amblyoponinae
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Amblyoponinae is characterized by these worker characters: eyes small or absent, situated behind midlength of side of head; anterior margin of clypeus with specialized dentiform setae; promesonotal suture flexible; petiole very broadly attached to abdominal segment 3 and without a distinct posterior face; postpetiole absent; sting present and well developed.
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Systematics
The subfamily was formerly considered a tribe within Ponerinae, but was elevated to its own subfamily in 2003 when Barry Bolton divided Ponerinae into six subfamilies.
- Amblyoponinae Forel, 1893
- Amblyoponini Forel, 1893
- Adetomyrma Ward, 1994
- Amblyopone Erichson, 1842
- †Casaleia Pagliano & Scaramozzino, 1990
- Fulakora Mann, 1919
- Myopopone Roger, 1861
- Mystrium Roger, 1862
- Onychomyrmex Emery, 1895
- Prionopelta Mayr, 1866
- Stigmatomma Roger, 1859
- Xymmer Santschi, 1914
- Amblyoponini Forel, 1893