| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1953 |
| Authors: | W. L. Brown, Jr. |
| Volume: | 50 |
| Pagination: | 1 - 137 |
| Date Published: | 1953 |
| Keywords: | dacetini, Formicidae, Myrmicinae |
| Abstract: | (none) Introduction The tribe Dacetini is a rather large group containing 27 described genera and about 260 or 270 described and undescribed species presently in collec- tions. In stating the number of species, I have excluded all the synonyms known to me in the tribe. The Dacetini have been placed by all relatively recent major authors in the subfamily Myrmicinae of the single family repre- senting all ants, the Formicidae. The placement with the Myrmicinae appears the most correct situation for the present, but the tribe seems so distinctive in many ways important to phylogenetic considerations that future revision of the subfamily, now so hopelessly tangled systematically, may see the Dacetini separated as an independent group. |
| Short Title: | American Midland Naturalist |