''Alloformica'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
ant
Ants are Eusociality, eusocial insects of the Family (biology), family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the Taxonomy (biology), order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from Vespoidea, vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cre ...
s in the
subfamily
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Formicinae
The Formicinae are a subfamily within the Formicidae containing ants of moderate evolutionary development.
Formicines retain some primitive features, such as the presence of cocoons around pupae, the presence of ocelli in workers, and littl ...
.
The genus was first described as a
subgenus
In biology, a subgenus ( subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the ge ...
of ''
Proformica'' by Dlussky (1969), later to be
synonymized under ''Proformica'' by Brown (1973), and finally revived and raised to genus rank by Dlussky & Fedoseeva (1988). Its species are known only from a few localities.
Species
* ''
Alloformica aberrans''
(Mayr, 1877)
* ''
Alloformica flavicornis''
(Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1926)
* ''
Alloformica nitidior''
(Forel, 1904)
* ''
Alloformica obscurior''
Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990
References
External links
*
Formicinae
Ant genera
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