A member of a taxonomic grouping of army ant and their relatives, comprising six subfamilies Leptanilloidinae (subfamily), Cerapachyinae (subfamily), Ecitoninae (subfamily), and the monogeneric subfamilies Aenictinae, Aenictogitinae (subfamily), and genus Dorylus (genus) sensu stricto, now all placed in Dorylinae (subfamily) sensu lato.