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Formicidae  
Taxonomic Serial No.: 154193

 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): ants [English]
  
    fourmis [French]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete    
  Latest Record Review: 2006    
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  -- Animal, animals, animaux  
    PhylumArthropoda  -- arthropodes, arthropods, Artrópode  
       SubphylumHexapoda  -- hexapods  
          ClassInsecta  -- hexapoda, insectes, insects, inseto  
             SubclassPterygota  -- insects ailés, winged insects  
                InfraclassNeoptera  -- modern, wing-folding insects  
                   OrderHymenoptera  -- abelha, ants, bees, formiga, vespa, wasps  
                      SuborderApocrita  -- abeilles, ants, bees, fourmis, guêpes véritables, narrow-waisted hymenopterans, true wasps  
                         InfraorderAculeata   
                            SuperfamilyVespoidea  -- vespoid wasps  
                               FamilyFormicidae  -- ants, fourmis  
    Direct Children:  
                                  Genus Calyptites Scudder, 1877  
                                  Subfamily Aenictinae   
                                  Subfamily Aenictogitoninae   
                                  Subfamily Aneuretinae   
                                  Subfamily Apomyrminae   
                                  Subfamily Armaniinae   
                                  Subfamily Cerapachyinae   
                                  Subfamily Dolichoderinae   
                                  Subfamily Dorylinae   
                                  Subfamily Ecitoninae   
                                  Subfamily Formiciinae   
                                  Subfamily Formicinae   
                                  Subfamily Leptanillinae   
                                  Subfamily Leptanilloidinae   
                                  Subfamily Myrmeciinae   
                                  Subfamily Myrmicinae   
                                  Subfamily Nothomyrmeciinae   
                                  Subfamily Paleosminthurinae   
                                  Subfamily Ponerinae   
                                  Subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae   
                                  Subfamily Sphecomyrminae   
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Deans et al. (July 2006)  
  Notes: Consensus on Hymenoptera classification to family by: Andrew Austin, Denis Brothers, Matt Buffington, Andrew Deans, Gary Gibson, John Jennings, Norm Johnson, Johan Liljeblad, Michael Ohl, Lawrence Packer, Fredrik Ronquist, and Robert Wharton   
  Reference for: Formicidae   
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: ITIS*ca, website (version 2002)  
  Acquired: 2003   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: fourmis [French]   
       
  Source: Hymenoptera Name Server, website (version 0.021)  
  Acquired: 2001   
  Notes: http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu:8880/hymenoptera/nomenclator.home_page   
  Reference for: Formicidae   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Formicidae   
       
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