Translingual

Formica rufa

Proper noun

Formicinae

1. A taxonomic subfamily within the family Formicidae – very many ants.

Hypernyms

• (subfamily): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Hymenopterida - superorder; Hymenoptera - order; Apocrita - suborder; Formicoidea - superfamily; Formicidae - family

Hyponyms

• (subfamily): Camponotini, Formicini, Gesomyrmecini, Gigantiopini, Lasiini, Melophorini, Myrmecorhynchini, Myrmelachistini, Myrmoteratini, Nostigmatini, Oecophyllini, Plagiolepidini (tribes)
  • Imhoffia, Kyromyrma, Leucotaphus, Protrechina, Tylolasius (extinct genera, incertae sedis)

Related terms

• formicine