Аннотация:Problem is how the complex of diagnostic characters of subfamily forms in evolution: gradually or in one step? Imperfection of the paleontological data, parallel morphological evolution seriously complicates the problem. We attempt to investigate the process using morphological data of recent and extinct Myrmeciinae. At the first stage of the research we examined wing morphology basing on our pervious findings. We demonstrated that recent Myrmeciinae had a diagnostic complex of wing characters, which are distinct from that of extinct myrmeciines. Wings of Paleocene myrmeciines demonstrate more primitive state of some features than recent poneromorphs. However differences between complexes of diagnostic characters recent and extinct myrmeciines are neutral, as length of cell 3r, size of cell 1+2r. The investigation will continue with other morphological data.