This history item belongs to Attidae Smith, 1858

Its current taxon owner(s) is Attini

[Attidae Shuckard, 1840e: 174, is rejected as a family-group name as it appears in the text to be a plural noun or adjective referring to the members of a genus.] 

[{unmissing Attidae} {ref 143779}: 174, is rejected as a family-group name as it appears in the text to be a plural noun or adjective referring to the members of a genus.]
  • Item type: taxt
  • Created at: 2023-10-09
  • Updated at: 2023-10-09
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Taxa belonging to this history item's protonym
Attinae Subfamily Obsolete combination
an obsolete classification of Attini Smith, 1858
Attini Tribe Valid
Other history items belonging to Attidae
#312110 (selected) [Attidae Shuckard, 1840e: 174, is rejected as a family-group name as it appears in the text to be a plural noun or adjective referring to the members of a genus.]
#312118 [Attina Sosa-Calvo et al., 2017: 2; Sosa-Calvo et al., 2018: 549; Sosa-Calvo et al., 2019: 140; Solomon et al., 2019: 940 [as subtribe of Myrmicinae tribe Attini]. Unavailable name; in all cases proposed without morphological diagnosis. Note: in the publications cited Attina is referred to as “fungus growing ants”, or “fungus farming ants”, or are stated to “rely exclusively on basidiomycete fungi”. It is undecided if such statements would satisfy the provisions of ICZN Article 13.]
#241374 Attinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Smith, 1858a: 161 [Attidae]; Smith, 1860c: 73 [Attidae]; Smith, 1861b: 48 [Attidae]; Smith, 1862b: 34 [Attidae].
#241375 Attidae as family: Smith, 1861b: 48 [Attidae]; Smith, 1863a: 21 [Attidae].
#241376 Attini as group of Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877b: 72 [Attidae].
#241377 Attidae as junior synonym of Myrmicidae: Emery & Forel, 1879: 457 [Attidae].
#241378 Attinae as subfamily of Myrmicidae: Emery, 1894h: 385 [Attinae].
#241380 Attinae as subfamily of Cryptoceridae: Ashmead, 1905c: 383 [Attinae].
#241381 Attini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Forel, 1891c: 143 [Attini]; Forel, 1892d: 344 [Attini]; Forel, 1893b: 163 [Attii]; Forel, 1893h: 586 [Attini]; Forel, 1895b: 137 [Attii]; Emery, 1895d: 329 [Attii]; Emery, 1895l: 770 [Attii]; Forel, 1899d: 30 [Attii]; Sharp, 1899: 165 [Attini]; Forel, 1908a: 69 [Attii]; Wheeler, 1910a: 141 [Attii]; Emery, 1913c: 251 [Attini]; Emery, 1914e: 39; Forel, 1917: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 668 [Attini]; Emery, 1924f: 330 [Attini]; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 82; Kempf, 1972b: 265; Smith, 1979: 1409; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Brandão, 1991: 392; Bolton, 1995b: 9; Bolton, 2003: 56, 196; Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#278978 Attini as senior synonym of Anergatidini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#278979 Attini as senior synonym of Basicerotini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#278980 Attini as senior synonym of Blepharidattini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#278981 Attini as senior synonym of Cephalotini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#312111 Attini as senior synonym of Cryptocerini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#278982 Attini as senior synonym of Dacetini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#312112 Attini as senior synonym of Epopostrumini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#278984 Attini as senior synonym of Lenomyrmecini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#278985 Attini as senior synonym of Pheidolini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#278986 Attini as senior synonym of Ochetomyrmecini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#312113 Attini as senior synonym of Orectognathini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#278987 Attini as senior synonym of Phalacromyrmecini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#312114 Attini as senior synonym of Strumigenini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
#278988 [Attini as junior synonym of Pheidolini: Fernández & Serna, 2019: 829.]
#312115 [Note: the name Attini (1858) is easily senior to Pheidolini (1877), but Fernández & Serna, 2019: 829, suggest Pheidolini as the name for the tribe, apparently so that Attini can be reserved for the Neotropical fungus growers. The compiler of this catalogue maintains temporal priority, pending an appeal by the authors to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, the only body which can approve such a drastic change of usage; the proposed change is not supported here.]