• [Attidae Shuckard, 1840e: 174, is rejected as a family-group name as it appears in the text to be a plural noun or adjective referring to the members of a genus.]
• [Attina Sosa-Calvo et al., 2017: 2; Sosa-Calvo et al., 2018: 549; Sosa-Calvo et al., 2019: 140; Solomon et al., 2019: 940 [as subtribe of Myrmicinae tribe Attini]. Unavailable name; in all cases proposed without morphological diagnosis. Note: in the publications cited Attina is referred to as “fungus growing ants”, or “fungus farming ants”, or are stated to “rely exclusively on basidiomycete fungi”. It is undecided if such statements would satisfy the provisions of ICZN Article 13.]
• Attidae as family: Smith, 1861b: 48 [Attidae]; Smith, 1863a: 21 [Attidae].
• Attini as group of Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877b: 72 [Attidae].
• Attidae as junior synonym of Myrmicidae: Emery & Forel, 1879: 457 [Attidae].
• Attini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Forel, 1891c: 143 [Attini]; Forel, 1892d: 344 [Attini]; Forel, 1893b: 163 [Attii]; Forel, 1893h: 586 [Attini]; Forel, 1895b: 137 [Attii]; Emery, 1895d: 329 [Attii]; Emery, 1895l: 770 [Attii]; Forel, 1899d: 30 [Attii]; Sharp, 1899: 165 [Attini]; Forel, 1908a: 69 [Attii]; Wheeler, 1910a: 141 [Attii]; Emery, 1913c: 251 [Attini]; Emery, 1914e: 39; Forel, 1917: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 668 [Attini]; Emery, 1924f: 330 [Attini]; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 82; Kempf, 1972b: 265; Smith, 1979: 1409; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Brandão, 1991: 392; Bolton, 1995b: 9; Bolton, 2003: 56, 196; Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Anergatidini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Basicerotini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Blepharidattini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Cephalotini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Cryptocerini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Dacetini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Epopostrumini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Lenomyrmecini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Pheidolini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Ochetomyrmecini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Orectognathini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Phalacromyrmecini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Attini as senior synonym of Strumigenini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• [Attini as junior synonym of Pheidolini: Fernández & Serna, 2019: 829.]
• [Note: the name Attini (1858) is easily senior to Pheidolini (1877), but Fernández & Serna, 2019: 829, suggest Pheidolini as the name for the tribe, apparently so that Attini can be reserved for the Neotropical fungus growers. The compiler of this catalogue maintains temporal priority, pending an appeal by the authors to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, the only body which can approve such a drastic change of usage; the proposed change is not supported here.]

Junior synonyms

• Anergatidini Emery, 1922
• Basicerotini Brown, 1949
• Blepharidattini Wheeler & Wheeler, 1991
• Cephalotini Smith, 1949
• Cryptocerini Smith, 1853
  Obsolete classification(s): Cryptoceridae
• Dacetini Forel, 1892
  Obsolete classification(s): Dacetina
• Epopostrumini Brown, 1952
  Obsolete classification(s): Epopostrumina
• Lenomyrmecini Bolton, 2003
• Ochetomyrmecini Emery, 1914
• Orectognathini Brown, 1952
  Obsolete classification(s): Orectognathina
• Phalacromyrmecini Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988
• Pheidolini Emery, 1877
• Strumigenini Brown, 1952
  Obsolete classification(s): Strumigenina

Obsolete classifications

• Attinae

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