An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
†Armaniinae
Dlussky, 1983
valid
Fossil: 1 valid tribe, 8 valid genera, 14 valid species
†Armaniidae Dlussky, 1983Dlussky, G. M. 1983. A new family of Upper Cretaceous Hymenoptera: an "intermediate link" between the ants and the scolioids. [In Russian.]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1983(3):65-78. [1983-08-29>] PDF 124128: 66. Type-genus: †Armania. AntWeb AntWiki
- †Armaniinae as junior synonym of Formicidae: Wilson, 1987bWilson, E. O. 1987b. The earliest known ants: an analysis of the Cretaceous species and an inference concerning their social organization. Paleobiology 13:44-53. [1987-03-13] PDF 130401: 49; Carpenter, 1992Carpenter, F. M. 1992. Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part R. Arthropoda 4. Volume 4. Superclass Hexapoda. Boulder: Geological Society of America, pp. i-ii, 279-655. [1992-12-09] 123536: 491.
- †Armaniinae as family: Dlussky, 1983Dlussky, G. M. 1983. A new family of Upper Cretaceous Hymenoptera: an "intermediate link" between the ants and the scolioids. [In Russian.]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1983(3):65-78. [1983-08-29>] PDF 124128: 66 [Armaniidae]; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) 1988. Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. [1987-12-22>] 124165: 77; Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997Grimaldi, D.; Agosti, D.; Carpenter, J. M. 1997. New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships. American Museum Novitates 3208:1-43. [1977-10-23] PDF 131403: 7; Dlussky, 1999ADlussky, G. M. 1999A. The first find of the Formicoidea (Hymenoptera) in the lower Cretaceous of the northern hemisphere. [In Russian.]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1999(3):62-66. [1999-06] PDF 131112: 63; Rasnitsyn, 2002Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2002. Superorder Vespidea Laicharting, 1781. Order Hymenoptera Linné, 1758 (=Vespida Laicharting, 1781). Pp. 242-254 in: Rasnitsyn, A. P.; Quicke, D. L. J. (eds.) 2002. History of insects. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 517 pp. 132127: 249; Engel & Grimaldi, 2005Engel, M. S.; Grimaldi, D. A. 2005. Primitive new ants in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, New Jersey, and Canada (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 3485:1-23. [2005-07-25] PDF 131191: 4; LaPolla, Dlussky & Perrichot, 2013LaPolla, J. S.; Dlussky, G. M.; Perrichot, V. 2013. Ants and the fossil record. Annual Review of Entomology 58:609-630. PDF 142316: 617 (in text).
- †Armaniinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 1994Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. [1994-07-25] 122834: 187; Dlussky, 1996BDlussky, G. M. 1996B. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Burmese amber. Paleontological Journal. 30:449-454. [1996-08] 131107: 83; Bolton, 2003Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. [2003-11-10] PDF 130789: 73.
- †Armaniinae as stem ant subfamily of Formicidae: Ward, 2007CWard, P. S. 2007C. Phylogeny, classification, and species-level taxonomy of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1668:549-563. [2007-12-21] PDF 132572: 555.
Tribe (extinct) of †Armaniinae: †Armaniini.
Armaniinae references:
Dlussky, 1983Dlussky, G. M. 1983. A new family of Upper Cretaceous Hymenoptera: an "intermediate link" between the ants and the scolioids. [In Russian.]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1983(3):65-78. [1983-08-29>] PDF 124128: 67 (genera and species key); Bolton, 1995bBolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. [1995-10] 122860: 9 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. [2003-11-10] PDF 130789: 73, 259 (diagnosis, synopsis); LaPolla, Dlussky & Perrichot, 2013LaPolla, J. S.; Dlussky, G. M.; Perrichot, V. 2013. Ants and the fossil record. Annual Review of Entomology 58:609-630. PDF 142316: 618 (discussion).
†fossil
valid
synonym
subspecies
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
unavailable/nomen nudum
homonym
original combination