FORMICIDAE Latreille, 1809
(ants)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
FORMICINAE a subfamily of hymenopterans	Subfamily	16 subtaxa	105 images	18 ident. refs
MYRMICINAE a subfamily of hymenopterans	Subfamily	13 subtaxa	99 images	9 ident. refs
Formicidae (unidentified) Unidentified Ants	Unidentified		1 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	FORMICIDAE (ants)
Superfamily	VESPOIDEA (wasps)
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)

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

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Bolton, B. & Collingwood, C.A.	1975	Hymenoptera: Formicidae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol VI, Part 3(C), 34pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
	Collingwood, C.A.	1979	The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark	Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 8, 175pp, Scandinavian Science Press
	Lebas, C.I.		Key to identifying common French ants	keyants.free.fr/index.html
()	Rotheray, G.E.	1989	Aphid Predators	Naturalists' Handbooks, 11, 77pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd

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

VESPOIDEA
(wasps)

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)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for FORMICIDAE (ants)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 186 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for FORMICIDAE (ants)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

FORMICIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)