FORMICOIDEA
(ants)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Superfamily	FORMICOIDEA (ants)
Infraorder	Aculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
Suborder	APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Order	HYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

FORMICOIDEA is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Anon.		Antweb	www.antweb.org
Donisthorpe, H.St.J.K	1915	* British ants, their life-history and classification *(Superseded)	373pp, William Brendon and son
Peeters, T.M.J., Van Achterberg, C., Heitmans, W.R.B., Klein, W.F., Lefeber, V., Van Loon, A.J., Mabelis, A.A., Nieuwenhuijsen, H. Reemer, M., De Rond, J., Smit, J. & Velthuis, H.H.W.	2004	De Wespen en Mieren van Nederland (Hymenoptera : Aculeata)	Nederlandse Fauna, No 6, 516pp, Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis
Savory, T.H.	1955	* The World of Small Animals *(Superseded)	160pp, University of London Press
Skinner, G.J. & Allen, G.W.	1996	Ants	Naturalists Handbooks, No. 24, 84pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd

FORMICOIDEA (ants) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 6 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for FORMICOIDEA (ants)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

FORMICOIDEA is also a member of:

Identification Works

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