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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton
Catalog › Formicidae › Eusphinctinae
Eusphinctinae Clark, 1951 junior synonym of current valid taxon Dorylinae Leach, 1815
Eusphinctinae Clark, 1951: 15 (diagnosis in key) Type-genus: Eusphinctus
  • Eusphinctinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Clark, 1951: 15.
  • Eusphinctinae as junior synonym of Cerapachyinae: Bolton, 1990a: 66; Bolton, 1990c: 1356; Bolton, 1995b: 10; Bolton, 2003: 33, 139.
  • Eusphinctinae as junior synonym of Dorylinae: Brady et al., 2014: 5; Borowiec, 2016: 14.
Citations
  • Bolton, B. 1990a. Abdominal characters and status of the cerapachyine ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 24:53-68. PDF
  • Bolton, B. 1990c. Army ants reassessed: the phylogeny and classification of the doryline section (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 24:1339-1364. PDF
  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
  • Borowiec, M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608:1-280. 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF
  • Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R.; Ward, P. S. 2014. The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14 (93):1-14. 10.1186/1471-2148-14-93 PDF
  • Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
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