It collectively refers to species in the three subfamilies Aenictinae, Ecitoninae, and Dorylinae and is strictly taxonomically defined. From Wordnik.com. [Myrmecos Blog] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Myrmecos Blog] Reference
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 tribe name - the Dorylini - to those groups that inherited the army ant syndrome. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
A term coined by WILSON (1964) to collectively refer to the subfamilies Aenictinae, Dorylinae, and Ecitoninae. From Wordnik.com. [Myrmecos Blog] Reference
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