Myrmicinae - AntCat

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Myrmicinae Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835 valid

Myrmicites Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 169 [as family-group name (Heterogynides, tribu Myrmicites)] Type-genus: Myrmica

[Note: the family-group name Myrmicites Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835 is not cognate with the myrmicine collective genus-group name †Myrmicites Förster, 1891.]
Myrmicinae as family-group name: Nylander, 1846a: 877 [Myrmicae].
Myrmicidae as family: Smith, 1851: 4 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1861b: 45 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1871a: 324 [Myrmicidae]; Taschenberg, 1880: 262, 265, 705 [Myrmicidae]; André, 1882b: 125, 255 [Myrmicidae]; White, 1884: 259 [Myrmicidae]; Cresson, 1887: 93 [Myrmicidae]; Emery, 1894h: 383 [Myrmicidae]; Saunders, 1896: 18 [Myrmicidae]; Ashmead, 1905c: 383 [Myrmicidae]; Novák & Sadil, 1941: 71 [Myrmicidae]; Bernard, 1951c: 1058 [Myrmicidae]; Bernard, 1953b: 222 [Myrmicidae].
Myrmicinae as subfamily of Poneridae: Smith, 1858a: 114 [Myrmicidae].
Myrmicinae as subfamily of Myrmicidae: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
Myrmicinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Nylander, 1846a: 877 [Myrmicae]; Mayr, 1855: 290, 390 [Formicina, Myrmicidae]; Nylander, 1856b: 53 [Myrmicineae]; Smith, 1857a: 70 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1860c: 69 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1861: 21, 29 [Formicidae, Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1862b: 33 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1862: 738 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 17 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1868b: 24 [Myrmicidae]; Forel, 1870: 307 [Myrmicidae]; Dours, 1873: 167 [Myrmicidae]; Forel, 1874: 22, 67 [Formicariae, Myrmicidae]; Emery, 1875b: 470 [Myrmicidei]; Emery, 1877b: 70 [Myrmicidae]; Forel, 1878c: 367 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879: 456 [Myrmicidae]; André, 1881c: 64 [Myrmicidae]; Emery, 1887f: 449 [Myrmicidae]; Nasonov, 1889: 28 [Myrmicidae]; Forel, 1890b: lxviii [Myrmicides]; Forel, 1891c: 143 [Myrmicidae]; Forel, 1892k: 220 [Myrmicidae]; Forel, 1893b: 163 [Myrmicinae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 53 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1895d: 269 [Myrmicini]; Emery, 1895l: 768 [subfamily spelled Myrmicini]; Emery, 1896e: 179 [Myrmicinae]; Mayr, 1897: 427 [Myrmicini]; Forel, 1899d: 30; Sharp, 1899: 158 [Myrmicides]; Forel, 1901c: 10 [Myrmicinae]; Forel, 1902g: 520; Bingham, 1903: 105 [Myrmecinae]; Ruzsky, 1905b: 103; Forel, 1908a: 65 [Myrmicidae]; Santschi, 1910e: 648 [Myrmicines]; Wheeler, 1910a: 138 [Myrmicinae]; Santschi, 1913h: 36 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1914e: 29; Santschi, 1914b: 70 [Myrmicinae]; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 74; Wheeler, 1915h: 806 [Myrmicides]; Wheeler, 1915i: 40; Arnold, 1916: 166; Emery, 1916a: 111 [Myrmicinae]; Escherich, 1917: 2 [Myrmicini]; Forel, 1917: 240 [subfamily erroneously spelled Myrmicini]; Bondroit, 1918: 14 [Myrmicitae]; Wheeler, 1920: 53 [Myrmicinae]; Wheeler, 1922: 124, 655 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1921c: 3 [Myrmicinae]; Karavaiev, 1934: 59; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 82; Clark, 1951: 16; Smith, 1951c: 789; Brown, 1954e: 28; Ettershank, 1966: 73; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a: 40; Kempf, 1972b: 263; Brown, 1973b: 166; Baroni Urbani, 1984: 76; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Ogata, 1991b: 73; Bolton, 1995b: 13; Bolton, 2003: 52, 182; Moreau et al., 2006: 102; Brady et al., 2006: 18173; Ward, 2007c: 556; Boudinot, 2015: 56; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.
[Myrmecidae/Myrmecinae: incorrect subsequent spelling by Mayr, 1867a: 91; Kirby, 1896: 207; Bingham, 1903: 105, and others.]
[Myrmycinae: incorrect subsequent spelling by Santschi, 1932h: 3; Santschi, 1937a: 51.]

Tribes of Myrmicinae: Attini, Crematogastrini, Myrmicini, Pogonomyrmecini, Solenopsidini, Stenammini

Genera incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: †Afromyrma, †Agastomyrma, †Bilobomyrma, †Boltonidris, †Brachytarsites, †Cephalomyrmex, †Clavipetiola, †Electromyrmex, †Eocenidris, †Eomyrmex, †Fallomyrma, †Fushunomyrmex, †Ilemomyrmex, †Incertogaster, †Lelejus, †Miosolenopsis, †Myrmecites, †Orbigastrula, †Quadrulicapito, †Quineangulicapito, †Sinomyrmex, †Solenopsites, †Sphaerogasterites, Tyrannomyrmex, †Wumyrmex, †Zhangidris

Collective group names in Myrmicinae: †Myrmicites

Subfamily Myrmicinae references

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Mayr, 1865: 17 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 91 (diagnosis); Forel, 1878c: 367 (diagnosis); Handlirsch, 1907: 872 (fossil taxa catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 53 (catalogue); Emery, 1895l: 768 (diagnosis); Emery, 1896e: 179 (genera key); Wheeler, 1910a: 138 (diagnosis); Emery, 1912b: 101 (phylogeny); Emery, 1914e: 34 (phylogeny, tribe key); Arnold, 1916: 164 (diagnosis); Forel, 1917: 240 (synoptic classification); Forel, 1921c: 139 (diagnosis); Emery, 1921c: 3 (diagnosis, tribes and genera key, catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 124, 655 (diagnosis, tribes key); Brown & Nutting, 1950: 126 (venation, phylogeny); Brown, 1954e: 28 (phylogeny); Eisner, 1957: 477 (proventriculus morphology); Bernard, 1967a: 93 (diagnosis); Gotwald, 1969b: 99 (mouthparts morphology); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a: 40 (diagnosis); Brown, 1973b: 166 (genera, distribution); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 52 (larvae, review and synthesis); Kugler, 1978a: 413 (sting structure); Kugler, 1978b: 267 (pygidial glands); Kugler, 1979c: 117 (sting, evolution); Snelling, 1981: 393 (synoptic classification); Caetano, 1984: 257 (digestive tract, morphology); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 53 (Australia catalogue); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 257 (synoptic classification); Billen, 1986b: 167 (Dufour's gland); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (synoptic classification); Hashimoto, 1990: 495 (possible Ectatomminae + Myrmicinae synapomorphy); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9 onward (synoptic classification, genera keys); Baroni Urbani et al., 1992: 317 (phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 75 (diagnosis, synoptic classification, genera keys); Bolton, 1995a: 1040 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 13 (catalogue); Hashimoto, 1996: 354 (phylogenetic position); Baroni Urbani, 2000: 480 (phylogeny); Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003: 422 (diagnosis for wingless fossils); Bolton, 2003: 52, 182 (diagnosis, synopsis); Moreau et al., 2006: 102 (phylogeny); Brady et al., 2006: 18173 (phylogeny); Ward, 2007c: 556 (classification); Keller, 2011: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); Ward et al., 2015: 61 (phylogeny, tribal classification); Boudinot, 2015: 56 (male diagnosis); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 50 (diagnosis).