Pheidolidae

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

Nomenclature

 * PHEIDOLINI [junior synonym of Attini]
 * Pheidolidae Emery, 1877a: 72. Type-genus: Pheidole Westwood, 1839: 219.

Taxonomic History

 * Pheidolini as group of Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877a: 72 [Pheidolidae].
 * Pheidolini as subtribe of Myrmicini: Emery, 1924d: 357.
 * Pheidolini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Forel, 1893a: 165 [Pheidolii]; Emery, 1914a: 35 [Pheidolini]; Forel, 1917: 241; Arnold, 1920a: 404; Emery, 1921f: 49; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 659; Brown, 1949a: 48; subsequent authors; Bolton, 2003: 63, 228.
 * Pheidolini as senior synonym of Aphaenogastrini: Brown, 1949a: 48.
 * Pheidolini as senior synonym of Ocymyrmicini: Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1281.
 * Pheidolini as senior synonym of Anergatidini: Bolton, 1994: 106.
 * Pheidolini as senior synonym of Lophomyrmicini: Bolton, 1995b: 12.
 * Pheidolini as junior synonym of Attini: Ward, et al. 2015: 77.

Taxonomic References
Emery, 1914a: 35, 38; 40, 41 (tribe diagnoses (in key); synoptic classifications); Forel, 1917: 241, 243 (synoptic classification); Emery, 1921f: 49 (Pheidolini diagnosis, genera key, catalogue); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 670 (genera key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 802, 891 (Afrotropical Pheidolini, Ocymyrmecini catalogues); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 1016 (Malagasy catalogue); Emery, 1924d: 270 (Ocymyrmicini diagnosis, catalogue); Kusnezov, 1952b: 9 (genera key); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 53, 57 (Pheidolini, Ocymyrmecini larvae, review and synthesis); Kugler, C. 1978a: 460 (sting structure); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1994: 106 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1041 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 14 (catalogue); Fernández, 2003d: 321 (Neotropical genera); Bolton, 2003: 63, 228 (diagnosis, synopsis).