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n. - Army ants.

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  • It collectively refers to species in the three subfamilies Aenictinae, Ecitoninae, and Dorylinae and is strictly taxonomically defined.
  • The subfamilies Aenictinae, Aenictogetoninae, Ecitoninae, and Dorylinae do form a clade, so it seems to me the natural solution would be to provide a proper taxonomic name.
  • One Linnean solution, for example, could be to sink all the Dorylomorphs into a single subfamily, the Dorylinae (a good idea for plenty of other reasons), and assign a...
  • A term coined by WILSON (1964) to collectively refer to the subfamilies Aenictinae, Dorylinae, and Ecitoninae.
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