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Formiciinae
| †Formiciinae Temporal range: Fossil only | |
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| Titanomyrma | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formiciinae Lutz, 1986 |
| Diversity | |
| 2 fossil genera 6 fossil species | |
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Statistics
Extant Taxa
No living taxa are known from this subfamily.
Fossil Taxa
| Fossil Genera | % World Fossil Genera | Valid Fossil Species/Subsp. | % World Fossil Species/Subsp. |
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| 2 | 1.1% | 6 | 0.66% |
Fossils known from: Bournemouth, Dorset, U.K. (Bartonian, Middle Eocene), Green River Formation, Colorado, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene), Isle of Purbeck (Durlston Bay), Dorset, U.K. (Middle Eocene), Messel, Germany (Lutetian, Middle Eocene), Puryear, Tennessee, United States (Early Eocene).
List of Tribes and Genera
Tribes
No tribes within subfamily.
Extant Genera
This subfamily is known only from fossils.
Fossil Genera
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †FORMICIINAE [subfamily of Formicidae]
- †Formiciinae Lutz, 1986: 181. Type-genus: †Formicium Westwood, 1854: 393.
Taxonomic History
- †Formiciinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Lutz, 1986: 181; Lutz, 1990: 1; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 17; Baroni Urbani, et al. 1992: 317; Bolton, 1994: 187; Bolton, 2003: 75, 262.
- †Formiciinae as formicoid subfamily of Formicidae: Ward, 2007a: 557.
Collective group name in †Formiciini
†Formicium.
†Formiciinae and collective group name †Formicium references: Lutz, 1986: 182 (diagnosis, all species revision, key, phylogeny); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 24 (diagnosis); Lutz, 1990: 61 (subfamily synopsis; review of genus); Bolton, 1995b: 206 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003: 75, 262 (diagnosis, synopsis); Archibald, et al. 2011: 3680 (synopsis).