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Formicinae, the Glossary

The Formicinae are a subfamily within the Formicidae containing ants of moderate evolutionary development.^[1]

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Ant subfamilies
Extant Turonian first appearances

Acidopore

The acidopore is a component of ant anatomy; a round orifice located on the abdomen encircled by hairs which typifies the subfamily Formicinae.

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Acropyga

Acropyga is a genus of small formicine ants.

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Agraulomyrmex

Agraulomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Alloformica

Alloformica is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau

Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (9 October 1770 – 23 August 1845), also spelled Lepeletier or Lepelletier, was a French entomologist, and specialist in the Hymenoptera.

See Formicinae and Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau

Anoplolepis

Anoplolepis, also known as the "pugnacious ants", is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae and tribe Lasiini.

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Ant

Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.

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Antenna (biology)

Antennae (antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.

See Formicinae and Antenna (biology)

AntWeb is the leading online database on ants: storing specimens images and records, and natural history information, and documenting over 490,000 specimens across over 35,000 taxa of ants in its open source and community driven repository.

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Aphomomyrmex

Aphomomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Asymphylomyrmex

Asymphylomyrmex is an extinct genus of ants in the formicid subfamily Formicinae.

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Attopsis

Attopsis is an extinct genus of ants in the formicid subfamily Formicinae.

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Bajcaridris

Bajcaridris is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Brachymyrmex

Brachymyrmex is a genus in the ants subfamily Formicinae.

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Bregmatomyrma

Bregmatomyrma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

See Formicinae and Bregmatomyrma

Calomyrmex

Calomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

See Formicinae and Calomyrmex

Camponotini

Camponotini is a tribe containing 2 extinct ant genera and 8 extant ant genera, including Camponotus (carpenter ants).

See Formicinae and Camponotini

Camponotus fellah

Camponotus fellah is a species of ant in the subfamily Formicinae found across the Middle East and North Africa.

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Carpenter ant

Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large ants (workers) indigenous to many forested parts of the world.

See Formicinae and Carpenter ant

Cataglyphis

Cataglyphis is a genus of ant, desert ants, in the subfamily Formicinae.

See Formicinae and Cataglyphis

Chimaeromyrma

Chimaeromyrma is an extinct, monotypic genus of ant, first described in 1988 by Dlussky.

See Formicinae and Chimaeromyrma

Cladomyrma

Cladomyrma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

See Formicinae and Cladomyrma

Clypeus (arthropod anatomy)

The clypeus is one of the sclerites that make up the face of an arthropod.

See Formicinae and Clypeus (arthropod anatomy)

Colobopsis

Colobopsis is a genus of ant in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Dinomyrmex

Dinomyrmex is a monotypic genus of ant containing the species Dinomyrmex gigas or giant forest ant.

See Formicinae and Dinomyrmex

Dolichoderinae

Dolichoderinae is a subfamily of ants, which includes species such as the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile), the erratic ant, the odorous house ant, and the cone ant. Formicinae and Dolichoderinae are ant subfamilies.

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Echinopla

Echinopla is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

See Formicinae and Echinopla

Euprenolepis

Euprenolepis is a Southeast Asian genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae with eight recognized species.

See Formicinae and Euprenolepis

Formic acid

Formic acid, systematically named methanoic acid, is the simplest carboxylic acid, and has the chemical formula HCOOH and structure.

See Formicinae and Formic acid

Formica

Formica is a genus of ants of the family Formicidae, including species commonly known as wood ants, mound ants, thatching ants, and field ants.

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Formiciinae

Formiciinae is an extinct subfamily of ants known from Eocene deposits in Europe and North America. Formicinae and Formiciinae are ant subfamilies.

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Formicinae

The Formicinae are a subfamily within the Formicidae containing ants of moderate evolutionary development. Formicinae and Formicinae are ant subfamilies, extant Turonian first appearances and taxa named by Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier.

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Formicini

Formicini is a tribe of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Gesomyrmex

Gesomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

See Formicinae and Gesomyrmex

Gigantiops

Gigantiops is a South American genus of jumping ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Hemiptera

Hemiptera is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.

See Formicinae and Hemiptera

Iberoformica

Iberoformica is a small genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Incertae sedis

of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.

See Formicinae and Incertae sedis

Lasiini

Lasiini is a tribe of ants in the family Formicidae.

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Lasiophanes

Lasiophanes is a small genus of ant with six described species endemic to Patagonia (Argentina and Chile).

See Formicinae and Lasiophanes

Lasius

Lasius is a genus of formicine ants.

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Lepisiota

Lepisiota is an Old World genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Mandible (insect mouthpart)

Insect mandibles are a pair of appendages near the insect's mouth, and the most anterior of the three pairs of oral appendages (the labrum is more anterior, but is a single fused structure).

See Formicinae and Mandible (insect mouthpart)

Melophorini

Melophorini is a tribe of ants in the family Formicidae.

See Formicinae and Melophorini

Melophorus

Melophorus (meaning "honey carrier") is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Metalasius is a genus of ants in the tribe Lasiini.

See Formicinae and Metalasius

Myrmecocystus

Myrmecocystus (from Koine Greek μυρμήκιον, meaning "ant", and κύστις, meaning "bladder" or "sac") is a North American genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Myrmecorhynchus

Myrmecorhynchus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Myrmelachista

Myrmelachista is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Myrmelachistini

Myrmelachistini is a tribe of ants in the family Formicidae.

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Myrmoteras

Myrmoteras is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae and the sole member of the tribe Myrmoteratini.

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Notoncus

Notoncus is an Australian genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Notostigma

Notostigma is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Nylanderia

Nylanderia is a large genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Opisthopsis

Opisthopsis is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Overbeckia

Overbeckia is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae originally containing only the single species Overbeckia subclavata.

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Paraparatrechina

Paraparatrechina is a genus of small ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Paratrechina

Paratrechina is one of seven ant genera (alongside Euprenolepis, Nylanderia, Paraparatrechina, Prenolepis, Pseudolasius, and Zatania) in the ''Prenolepis'' genus-group from the subfamily Formicinae (tribe Lasiini).

See Formicinae and Paratrechina

Pedipalp

Pedipalps (commonly shortened to palps or palpi) are the secondary pair of forward appendages among chelicerates – a group of arthropods including spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders.

See Formicinae and Pedipalp

Petalomyrmex

Petalomyrmex (from Greek petalos, "flattened" + myrmex, "ant") is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

See Formicinae and Petalomyrmex

Petiole (insect anatomy)

In entomology, petiole is the technical term for the narrow waist of some hymenopteran insects, especially ants, bees, and wasps in the suborder Apocrita.

See Formicinae and Petiole (insect anatomy)

Plagiolepidini

Plagiolepidini are an ant tribe from the subfamily Formicinae.

See Formicinae and Plagiolepidini

Plagiolepis

Plagiolepis is an ant genus of the formic acid-producing subfamily Formicinae.

See Formicinae and Plagiolepis

Polyergus

Polyergus is a small genus of ants with 14 described species.

See Formicinae and Polyergus

Polyrhachis

Polyrhachis is a genus of formicine ants found in the Old World with over 600 species.

See Formicinae and Polyrhachis

Prenolepis

Prenolepis is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

See Formicinae and Prenolepis

Proformica

Proformica is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Prolasius

Prolasius is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

See Formicinae and Prolasius

Protrechina

Protrechina is an extinct, monotypic genus of ant, first described by Wilson (1985) from a Middle Eocene fossil found near Malvern, Arkansas.

See Formicinae and Protrechina

Pseudocamponotus

Pseudocamponotus is an extinct, monotypic genus of ant.

See Formicinae and Pseudocamponotus

Pseudolasius

Pseudolasius is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Pseudonotoncus

Pseudonotoncus is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Pupa

A pupa (pupae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.

See Formicinae and Pupa

Rossomyrmex

Rossomyrmex is a genus of slave-making ant in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Santschiella

Santschiella is an Afrotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Simple eye in invertebrates

A simple eye or ocellus (sometimes called a pigment pit) is a form of eye or an optical arrangement which has a single lens without the sort of elaborate retina that occurs in most vertebrates.

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Slave-making ant

Slave-making ants or slaver ants are brood parasites that capture broods of other ant species to increase the worker force of their colony.

See Formicinae and Slave-making ant

Stigmacros

Stigmacros is an Australian genus of small ants in the subfamily Formicinae.

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Stinger

A stinger (or sting) is a sharp organ found in various animals (typically insects and other arthropods) capable of injecting venom, usually by piercing the epidermis of another animal.

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Subfamily

In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.

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