Definition of Family Formicidae

1. Noun. Ants.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Formicidae

family Euphorbiaceae
family Eurylaimidae
family Exocoetidae
family Fabaceae
family Fagaceae
family Falconidae
family Fasciolidae
family Felidae
family Filariidae
family Fissurellidae
family Fistulariidae
family Fistulinaceae
family Flacourtiaceae
family Forficulidae
family Formicariidae
family Formicidae (current term)
family Fouquieriaceae
family Fregatidae
family Fringillidae
family Fucaceae
family Fulgoridae
family Fumariaceae
family Funkaceae
family Furnariidae
family Gadidae
family Galbulidae
family Gasterophilidae
family Gasterosteidae
family Gavialidae
family Gavidae

Literary usage of Family Formicidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biological Control of Insects and Mites: An Introduction to Beneficial by Daniel L. Mahr, Nino M. Ridgway (1993)
"... INCH family Formicidae Ants The ants (figure 65) form a large and diverse group of about 700 species in the United States and Canada. ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Characters.— An ant is easily recognized both by the casual observer and by the student of insects. Ants form a distinct and natural family (Formicidae) of ..."

3. Hand-book of Indian Agriculture by Nitya Gopal Mukerji (1901)
"... and large sized ant which lives on trees and makes large sized nests of live leaves connected by a white web, belongs to the sub-family Formicidae, ..."

4. Entomology for Beginners for the Use of Young Folks, Fruit-growers, Farmers by Alpheus Spring Packard (1888)
"There are five families, characterized as follows: family Formicidae.—In this (and the three following families) the petiole has but a single joint; ..."

5. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1902)
"Emery, С. An Analytical Key to the genera of the family Formicidae, for the identification of the workers, 3, xxxvi, pp. 707-725.— Perez, J. Contribution a ..."

6. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"They can, however, be scarcely considered as more than a single family, Formicidae, so that the serial name is superfluous. Their nearest approach to other ..."

7. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"... species genera of the family Formicidae for the identification of the workers (Translated by William Morton Wheeler). An analytical key to the Amer. ..."

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