Camponotini

Camponotini is a tribe containing 2 extinct ant genera and 11 extant ant genera, including Camponotus (carpenter ants).^[1] Ants in the Camponotini tribe are the primary hosts of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, also called the zombie-ant fungus.^[2]

Camponotini
Camponotus ligniperda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Camponotini Forel, 1878
Type genus
Camponotus Mayr, 1861

Genera

• Calomyrmex Emery, 1895
• Camponotus Mayr, 1861
• †Chimaeromyrma Dlussky, 1988
• Colobopsis Mayr, 1861
• Dinomyrmex Ashmead, 1905
• Echinopla Smith, 1857
• Lathidris Ward et al, 2025
• Opisthopsis Dalla Torre, 1893
• Overbeckia Viehmeyer, 1916
• Polyrhachis Smith, 1857
• †Pseudocamponotus Carpenter, 1930
• Retalimyrma Ward et al, 2025
• Uwari Ward et al, 2025