- Attini as subfamily of Formicidae: Smith, 1858a: 161 [Attidae]; Smith, 1862b: 34 [Attidae].
- Attini as family: Smith, 1861b: 48 [Attidae]; Smith, 1863a: 21 [Attidae].
- Attini as group of Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877b: 72 [Attidae].
- Attini as junior synonym of Myrmicinae: Emery & Forel, 1879: 457 [Attidae].
- Attini as subfamily of Myrmicidae: Emery, 1894h: 385 [Attinae].
- Attini as subfamily of Cryptoceridae: Ashmead, 1905c: 383 [Attinae].
- Attini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Forel, 1891c: 143 [Attini]; Forel, 1892d: 344; Forel, 1893b: 163 [Attii]; Forel, 1895b: 137 [Attii]; Emery, 1895l: 770 [Attii]; Forel, 1899d: 30 [Attii]; Wheeler, 1910a: 141 [Attii]; Emery, 1913c: 251; Emery, 1914e: 39; Forel, 1917: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 658; Emery, 1924f: 330; all subsequent authors.
- Attini as senior synonym of Anergatini: 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 Dacetini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
- Attini as senior synonym of Dacetiti: 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 Ochetomyrmicini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
- Attini as senior synonym of Phalacromyrmecini: 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 proposed change is not supported here.]
Junior synonyms
- Anergatidini Emery, 1922
- Basicerotini Brown, 1949
- Blepharidattini Wheeler & Wheeler, 1991
- Cephalotini Smith, 1949
- Cryptoceridae Smith, 1853
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Dacetini
Forel, 1892
Obsolete classification(s): Dacetiti
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Epopostrumini
Brown, 1952
Obsolete classification(s): Epopostrumina
- Lenomyrmecini Bolton, 2003
- Ochetomyrmicini Emery, 1914
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Orectognathini
Brown, 1952
Obsolete classification(s): Orectognathina
- Phalacromyrmecini Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988
- Pheidolini Emery, 1877
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Strumigenini
Brown, 1952
Obsolete classification(s): Strumigenina
Tribe Attini references
Emery, 1895l: 770 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1907d: 669 (North America fauna); Wheeler, 1910a: 141 (diagnosis); Emery, 1912b: 101 (phylogeny); Emery, 1913c: 251 (synoptic classification); Emery, 1914e: 39, 42 (diagnosis (in key), synoptic classification); Gallardo, 1916e: 318 (Argentina genera, key); Forel, 1917: 247 (synoptic classification); Wheeler, 1922: 668 (genera key); Emery, 1924f: 330 (diagnosis, genera key, catalogue); Kusnezov, 1964: 147 (phylogeny); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 60 (larvae, review & synthesis); Kugler, 1978a: 477 (sting structure); Weber, 1982: 255 (synopsis); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16 (synoptic classification); Brandão, 1991: 392 (Neotropical fauna, synoptic classification); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1040 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 9 (catalogue); Schultz & Meier, 1995: 337 (phylogeny, larvae); Lattke, 1999b: 2 (phylogeny, partial); Brandão & Mayhé-Nunes, 2001: 661 (monophyly); Bolton, 2003: 56, 196 (diagnosis, synopsis); Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 5 (genera related to Mycetophylax key); Mehdiabadi & Schultz, 2010: 37 (natural history, phylogeny); Jesovnik et al., 2016: 1 (transcriptomic phylogeny, divergence dating); Branstetter et al., 2017: 1 (phylogeny, evolution); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 847 (Colombia species key); Cristiano et al., 2020: 647 (key to leaf-cutting genera); Hanisch et al., 2022: 1 (phylogeny, divergence dating); Borysenko, 2022: 5 (male diagnoses of genus groups; key to genera of Basiceros genus group)
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