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data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429060/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429060">Aneuretinae</a></span> Emery, 1913 <span class='text-sm'> valid </span> <!-- --- Second line --- --> <div class='mb-4'> <span class='font-bold mr-1' data-testid='catalog-protonym-name'> <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/protonyms/154791/hover_preview.json" class="protonym" href="/protonyms/154791">Aneuretini</a> </span> <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/124711/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/124711">Emery, 1913a</a>: 6 Type-genus: <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429063/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429063"><i>Aneuretus</i></a> </div> <!-- --- Type names --- --> <!-- --- Type information --- --> <div class='mb-8'> </div> <!-- --- Replacement names for --- --> <!-- --- History items --- --> <!-- --- History items: As object --- --> <!-- --- History items: Grouped items --- --> <ul class='mb-8'> <li><a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429060/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429060">Aneuretinae</a> as junior synonym of <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429071/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429071">Dolichoderinae</a>: <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/122456/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/122456">Baroni Urbani, 1989</a>: 147.</li> <li><a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429060/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429060">Aneuretinae</a> as subfamily of <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429011/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429011">Formicidae</a>: <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/123635/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/123635">Clark, 1951</a>: 16 (footnote); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/130416/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/130416">Wilson <i>et al.</i>, 1956</a>: 93; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/129891/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/129891">Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a</a>: 40; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/128876/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/128876">Snelling, 1981</a>: 400; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/124165/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/124165">Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988</a>: 78; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/122856/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/122856">Bolton, 1990c</a>: 1361; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/122852/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/122852">Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990</a>: 16; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/128604/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/128604">Shattuck, 1992b</a>: 201; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/122513/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/122513">Baroni Urbani <i>et al.</i>, 1992</a>: 315; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/128601/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/128601">Shattuck, 1994</a>: 1; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/122834/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/122834">Bolton, 1994</a>: 15; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/122860/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/122860">Bolton, 1995b</a>: 9; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/130789/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/130789">Bolton, 2003</a>: 18, 79 [<a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429060/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429060">Aneuretinae</a>]; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/130828/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/130828">Brady <i>et al.</i>, 2006</a>: 18173; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/131881/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/131881">Moreau <i>et al.</i>, 2006</a>: 102 [<a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429060/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429060">Aneuretinae</a>]; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/132572/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/132572">Ward, 2007c</a>: 556 [<a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429060/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429060">Aneuretinae</a>]; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/142740/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/142740">Boudinot, 2015</a>: 49; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/142944/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/142944">Perkovsky, 2016</a>: 113.</li> </ul> <!-- --- History items: Not shown items (from protonym) --- --> <!-- --- Junior synonyms --- --> <!-- --- Obsolete combinations --- --> <!-- --- Rank-specific --- --> <div class='mb-8'> <div> <span class='font-bold'>Tribes of Aneuretinae:</span> <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429061/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429061">Aneuretini</a>, <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429067/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429067">†Pityomyrmecini</a> </div> <div> <span class='font-bold'>Genera <i>incertae sedis</i> in Aneuretinae:</span> <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429069/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429069"><i>†</i><i>Burmomyrma</i></a> </div> </div> <!-- --- Reference sections --- --> <div> <div class='mb-4 group/reference-sections-item'> <h6 class='font-bold'>Subfamily <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429060/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429060">Aneuretinae</a> references</h6> <p><a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/125069/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/125069">Forel, 1895f</a>: 461 (diagnosis); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/122766/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/122766">Bingham, 1903</a>: 290 (diagnosis); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/124711/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/124711">Emery, 1913a</a>: 6 (diagnosis); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/130416/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/130416">Wilson <i>et al.</i>, 1956</a>: 93 (diagnosis, review of subfamily and genus); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/124480/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/124480">Eisner, 1957</a>: 453 (proventriculus morphology); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/129891/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/129891">Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a</a>: 40 (diagnosis); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/129906/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/129906">Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b</a>: 60 (larvae, review and synthesis); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/129918/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/129918">Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b</a>: 258 (synoptic classification); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/122856/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/122856">Bolton, 1990c</a>: 1361 (morphology, status); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/128604/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/128604">Shattuck, 1992b</a>: 201 (higher classification, phylogeny); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/122513/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/122513">Baroni Urbani <i>et al.</i>, 1992</a>: 315 (phylogeny); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/122834/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/122834">Bolton, 1994</a>: 15 (diagnosis, synoptic classification); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/122859/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/122859">Bolton, 1995a</a>: 1047 (census); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/131135/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/131135">Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003</a>: 414 (diagnosis, wingless impression fossils); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/130789/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/130789">Bolton, 2003</a>: 18, 79 (diagnosis, synopsis); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/130828/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/130828">Brady <i>et al.</i>, 2006</a>: 18173 (phylogeny); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/131881/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/131881">Moreau <i>et al.</i>, 2006</a>: 102 (phylogeny); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/132879/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/132879">Keller, 2011</a>: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/142622/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/142622">Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014</a>: 433 (British Eocene species key); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/142740/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/142740">Boudinot, 2015</a>: 49 (male diagnosis, discussion of fossil taxa); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/143000/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/143000">Barden, 2017</a>: 3 (Mesozoic taxa); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/144027/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/144027">Boudinot <i>et al.</i>, 2022</a> 6 (adult castes diagnosis).</p> </div> </div> <!-- --- Citations --- --> <div class='mb-12'></div> <h5 class='font-bold'>Citations</h5> <ul> <li class='group/citations-reference [&_a]:break-words'> <a href="/authors/11304">Barden, P.</a> 2017. <a 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href="/catalog/429481">Dorylinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/429497">Ectatomminae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/430199">†Formiciinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/429149">Formicinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/508390">†Haidomyrmecinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/430164">Leptanillinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/430173">Martialinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/429387">Myrmeciinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/429529">Myrmicinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/430147">Paraponerinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/430052">Ponerinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/430150">Proceratiinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/429404">Pseudomyrmecinae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/430185">†Sphecomyrminae</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid subfamily" href="/catalog/511088">†Zigrasimeciinae</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class='hidden overflow-y-auto clear-right p-4 pt-0 min-h-[10rem] max-h-[24vh]' id='taxon-browser-tab-1-content'> <ul class='no-bullet py-2 columns-[9rem]'> <li class='uppercase whitespace-nowrap'><span class="selected"><a href="/catalog/429060?view=all_genera_in_subfamily">All genera</a></span></li> <li class='uppercase whitespace-nowrap'><span class="label-white-smaller"><a href="/catalog/429060?view=without_tribe">Without tribe</a></span></li> <li 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