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Aphaenogaster donisthorpei
| †Aphaenogaster donisthorpei Temporal range: Late Eocene Florissant, Colorado, United States | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Aphaenogaster |
| Species: | †A. donisthorpei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Aphaenogaster donisthorpei Carpenter, 1930 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Florissant, Colorado, United States (Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †donisthorpei. †Aphaenogaster donisthorpei Carpenter, 1930: 31, pl. 7, fig. 4 (q.) U.S.A. (Colorado, Florissant, Eocene).
- Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 109; Bolton, 1995b: 69.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 69, catalogue)
- Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70: 1-66. (page 31, pl. 7, fig. 4 queen described)