Gigantiopini

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Gigantiopini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Gigantiopini
Ashmead, 1905
Type genus
Gigantiops
Diversity
1 genera
1 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.

  • GIGANTIOPINI [tribe of Formicinae]
    • Gigantiopini Ashmead, 1905b: 384. Type-genus: Gigantiops Roger, 1863b: 11.

Taxonomic History

  • Gigantiopini as tribe of Gesomyrmicinae: Ashmead, 1905b: 384.
  • Gigantiopini as tribe of Formicinae: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 692; Emery, 1925b: 48; subsequent authors; Bolton, 2003: 25, 111; Ward, et al. 2016: 347.

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