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Formicarides, or to some later work which I have not seen. La- 

 treille, however, as early as 1810, used Formicarii as a family name, 

 and it would seem to be permissible to cite him as the author of 

 Formicidse. The subfamily Dorylinse is attributed by Emery and 

 others to Shuckard (1840), but this author says: "Mr. Haliday 

 has first raised them to a family equivalent to the whole of the 

 social Ants, etc." and at p. 195 he definitively attributes the 

 Dorylidse to Haliday. This may have been based on correspond- 

 ence as I find no mention of the term in such published writings of 

 Haliday as I have seen. But the matter is of little moment 

 because Leach, in the 1815 paper referred to above, created a 

 family Dorylida, so that, unless there is an earlier authority, the 

 subfamily Dorylinse should be accredited to this early British 

 entomologist. Forel attributes the subfamilies Ponerinse and 

 Myrmicinse to Lepeletier, but Dalla Torre gives Mayr as the author 

 of the latter and Donisthorpe refers the Ponerinse also to Mayr. 

 Smith regarded himself as the authority for Poneridse and Myrmi- 



MYRMICINAE 



OORYLINAE 



FORMICINAE 



DERINAE 



CERAPACHYINAE 



SCOLIIDOIO 



ANCESTORS 



Fig. 3. Phylogenetic relationships of the seven subfamilies of Formicidae. 



