Axinidrini

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Axinidrini
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Tapinomini)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Axinidrini
Weber, 1941
Type genus
Axinidris

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Tapinomini.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • AXINIDRINI [junior synonym of Tapinomini]
    • Axinidrini Weber, 1941a: 193. Type-genus: Axinidris Weber, 1941a: 192.

Taxonomic History

  • Axinidrini as tribe of Dolichoderinae: Weber, 1941a: 193; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78.
  • Axinidrini as junior synonym of Dolichoderinae: Shattuck, 1992c: 5; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 1995b: 9; Bolton, 2003: 19, 81.
  • Axinidrini as junior synonym of Tapinomini: Ward, et al. 2010: 361 [by implication, because type-genus included in Tapinomini].

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