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Formicidae (pl) (proper noun)
A family within the order Hymenoptera: Formicidae also include the bees, wasps, sawflies, ichneumons (wasp-like insects), and similar forms.

The known living ants comprise 11 subfamilies, 297 genera, and approximately 8,800 species.

—Information presented by
The Ants by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson;
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press;
Cambridge, Massachusetts; 1990; page 4.
This entry is located in the following unit: Ant and Related Entomology Terms (page 7)