Ponerine:

Ponerinae is a subfamily of tropical carnivorous ants (Formicidae) in which pupae characteristically form in cocoons. Ponerinae has recently been divided up into several Poneromorph subfamilies, with several former tribes now elevated to subfamily rank by the British myrmecologist Barry Bolton.
They are most easily identified from other sub-families by a constricted gaster (abdomen).
Ponerine ants (Ponerinae) are a diverse, conspicuous and ecologically important component of tropical forest ecosystems. With nearly 1,000 described species worldwide, the Ponerinae is the third-largest ant subfamily. Ponerines combine a suite of traits considered ancestral within ants (e.g. small colony sizes, solitary predaceous foraging, poor queen-worker morphological differentiation, lack of oral trophallaxis, and use of a venomous sting in prey capture) with a great diversity of derived morphological, ecological and behavioral traits (including some often bizarre social systems).

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