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Welcome to Subfamily Formicinae!

Formicinae - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Subclass Pterygota > Order Hymenoptera > Suborder Apocrita > Infraorder Aculeata > Superfamily Formicoidea > Family Formicidae > Subfamily Formicinae

(From Wikipedia) The Formicinae are a subfamily within the Formicidae containing ants of moderate evolutionary development.

FACT: Some of these ants have shown highly complex behavioral development in fields like slave-making and animal herding!

Currently discovered: 3/11 Tribes

Tribe

  1. Camponotini - Camponotine Ants
  2. Myrmelachistini - Myrmelachistine Ants
  3. Lasiini - Lasiine Ants