Barry Bolton, now retired, is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and Myrmecologist in the Biodiversity Division, Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London.

A stunning volume…to be savored visually… [This book] expresses more about our planet’s half-billion-year saga of zoological diversification than could be packed into a thousand pages of purple prose.

• Part 1 Introduction: problems of classification; outline of zoogeography; preparation of specimens; organization and use of the book. Part 2 The family formicidae: diagnosis of the family formicidae; the extant subfamilies; key to subfamilies based on external morphology; new format key to subfamilies. Part 3 Subfamilies: subfamily aenictinae; subfamily aenictogitoninae; subfamily aneuretinae; subfamily apomyrminae; subfamily cerapachyinae; subfamily dolichoderinae; subfamily dorylinae; subfamily ecitoninae; subfamily formicinae; subfamily leptanillinae; subfamily leptanilloidinae; subfamily myrmiciinae; subfamily nothomyrmeciinae; subfamily ponerinae; subfamily pseudomyrmecinae; the extinct subfamilies - subfamily armaniinae, subfamily formiciinae, subfamily sphecomyrminae, subfamily paleosminthurinae.

Barry Bolton, now retired, is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and Myrmecologist in the Biodiversity Division, Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London.

A stunning volume…to be savored visually… [This book] expresses more about our planet’s half-billion-year saga of zoological diversification than could be packed into a thousand pages of purple prose.

• Part 1 Introduction: problems of classification; outline of zoogeography; preparation of specimens; organization and use of the book. Part 2 The family formicidae: diagnosis of the family formicidae; the extant subfamilies; key to subfamilies based on external morphology; new format key to subfamilies. Part 3 Subfamilies: subfamily aenictinae; subfamily aenictogitoninae; subfamily aneuretinae; subfamily apomyrminae; subfamily cerapachyinae; subfamily dolichoderinae; subfamily dorylinae; subfamily ecitoninae; subfamily formicinae; subfamily leptanillinae; subfamily leptanilloidinae; subfamily myrmiciinae; subfamily nothomyrmeciinae; subfamily ponerinae; subfamily pseudomyrmecinae; the extinct subfamilies - subfamily armaniinae, subfamily formiciinae, subfamily sphecomyrminae, subfamily paleosminthurinae.

Barry Bolton, now retired, is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and Myrmecologist in the Biodiversity Division, Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, London.

A stunning volume…to be savored visually… [This book] expresses more about our planet’s half-billion-year saga of zoological diversification than could be packed into a thousand pages of purple prose.

• Part 1 Introduction: problems of classification; outline of zoogeography; preparation of specimens; organization and use of the book. Part 2 The family formicidae: diagnosis of the family formicidae; the extant subfamilies; key to subfamilies based on external morphology; new format key to subfamilies. Part 3 Subfamilies: subfamily aenictinae; subfamily aenictogitoninae; subfamily aneuretinae; subfamily apomyrminae; subfamily cerapachyinae; subfamily dolichoderinae; subfamily dorylinae; subfamily ecitoninae; subfamily formicinae; subfamily leptanillinae; subfamily leptanilloidinae; subfamily myrmiciinae; subfamily nothomyrmeciinae; subfamily ponerinae; subfamily pseudomyrmecinae; the extinct subfamilies - subfamily armaniinae, subfamily formiciinae, subfamily sphecomyrminae, subfamily paleosminthurinae.