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Myrmeciini
| Myrmeciini | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
| Tribe: | Myrmeciini Emery, 1877 |
| Type genus | |
| Myrmecia | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 genera 93 species | |
Identification
List of Genera
Extant Genera
Fossil Genera
No fossil genera within tribe.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- MYRMECIINI [tribe of Myrmeciinae]
- Myrmeciidae Emery, 1877a: 71. Type-genus: Myrmecia Fabricius, 1804: 423.
Taxonomic History
- Myrmeciini as tribe of Ponerinae: Forel, 1893a: 162 [Myrmecii]; Emery, 1895j: 766 [Myrmecii]; Emery, 1901a: 36 [Myrmecii]; Ruzsky, 1905b: 174 [Myrmecii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 134 [Myrmecii]; Emery, 1911d: 17 [Myrmeciini]; Forel, 1917: 235; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 636, 640; subsequent authors.
- Myrmeciini as tribe of Myrmeciinae: Brown, 1954e: 23; subsequent authors; Bolton, 2003: 29, 132.