Subfamily: Dorylinae

Dorylida Leach, 1815: 147. Type-genus: Dorylus.

Taxonomic history

Dorylinae as family: Leach, 1815: 147 [Dorylida (family-group name)]; Haliday, 1836: 331 [Dorylidae]; Swainson & Shuckard, 1840: 175 [Dorylidae]; Shuckard, 1840a: 188 [Dorylidae]; Smith, F. 1859b: 1 [Dorylidae]; Mayr, 1866b: 895 [Dorylidae]; Smith, F. 1871a: 225 [Dorylidae]; Andr?, 1882a: 125 [Dorylidae]; Cresson, 1887: 93 [Dorylidae]; Emery, 1894g: 381 [Dorylidae]; Ashmead, 1905b: 381 [Dorylidae]; Ashmead, 1906: 21 [Dorylidae]; Bernard, 1951: 1046 [Dorylidae]; Bernard, 1953b: 217 [Dorylidae].

Dorylinae as subfamily of Dorylidae: Ashmead, 1905b: 381; Ashmead, 1906: 25.

Dorylinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Mayr, 1865: 16 [Dorylidae]; Emery, 1877a: 70 [Dorylidae]; Forel, 1878: 365 [Dorylidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 465 [Dorylidae]; Andr?, 1881b: 64 [Dorylidae]; Forel, 1892j: 220 [Dorylidae]; Forel, 1893a: 163; Dalla Torre, 1893: 1; Forel, 1895b: 118 [Dorylidae]; Emery, 1895j: 764 [subfamily spelled Dorylini]; Emery, 1896e: 174; Forel, 1899c: 22; Forel, 1901a: 462; Forel, 1901c: 139; Emery, 1901a: 36; Bingham, 1903: 1; Emery, 1910b: 3; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 137; Arnold, 1915: 110; Escherich, 1917: 2 [Dorylini]; Forel, 1917: 239; Bondroit, 1918: 14 [Dorylitae]; Wheeler, W.M. 1920: 53; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 632; Clark, 1951: 16; Brown, 1954e: 28; Borgmeier, 1955: 51; all subsequent authors.

Dorylinae as dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 36, 147; Brady & Ward, 2005: 593.

Dorylinae as formicoid subfamily of Formicidae: Moreau, Bell, et al. 2006: 102.

Dorylinae as formicoid dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Brady, Schultz, et al. 2006: 18173; Ward, 2007a: 555.

Tribe of Dorylinae: Dorylini.