• Aenictinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 1990c: 1358; Baroni Urbani et al., 1992: 315; Bolton, 1994: 12; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 49; all subsequent authors.
• Aenictinae as dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 36, 146; Brady & Ward, 2005: 593.
• Aenictinae as formicoid subfamily of Formicidae: Moreau et al., 2006: 102.
• Aenictinae as formicoid dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Brady et al., 2006: 18173; Ward, 2007c: 555.
• Aenictinae as junior synonym of Dorylinae: Brady et al., 2014: 5.

Obsolete classifications

• Aenictini

Citations

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