Genus Sifolinia ^HNS Emery, 1907

Sifolinia ^HNS Emery, 1907:49.

Type-species: Sifolinia laurae Emery ^HNS, 1907.

Queen. General shape as in Myrmica ^HNS but antennal scape relatively thick; mid and hind tibiae with pectinate spurs reduced or absent. Both petiole and postpetiole are produced ventrally into blunt projections.

Male. General shape as in Myrmica ^HNS but lacking mid and hind tibial spurs. Antennae 12 segmented. Postpetiole with a blunt ventral projection, petiole thickened and swollen without defined projection. Notauli with posterior portion of Y tail reduced or absent. Wing venation of Myrmica ^HNS type but variable and often reduced.

This is a genus of workerless ants parasitic on Myrmica ^HNS species, with 4 or 5 species known from the palaearctic region only.