Camponotites
†Camponotites Temporal range: 17–1.9 Ma Early Miocene to Late Pliocene | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | uncertain |
Genus: | †Camponotites Steinbach, 1967 |
Type species | |
Camponotites silvestris | |
Diversity | |
3 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Synonyms | |
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Shanwang, China (Early Miocene) and Willershausen, Lower Saxony, Germany (Late Pliocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †CAMPONOTITES [incertae sedis in Formicinae]
- †Camponotites Steinbach, 1967: 101. Type-species: †Camponotites silvestris, by monotypy.
- †Camponotites senior synonym of †Rabidia: Dlussky, Wappler & Wedmann, 2008: 616.
- †Camponotites senior synonym and senior homonym of †Camponotites Dlussky: Dlussky, Karl, et al. 2011: 451.
- †Camponotites incertae sedis in Formicinae: Dlussky, Karl, et al. 2011: 451.
Taxonomic Notes
Placed within the Formicinae but unplaced to tribe by Ward et al. (2016).
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Dlussky, G.M., Karl, H.-V., Brauckmann, C., Gröning, E. & Reich, M. 2011. Two ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) from the Late Pliocene of Willershausen, Germany, with a nomenclatural note on the genus Camponotites. Paläontologishe Zeitscrift, 85:449–455 (DOI 10.1007/s12542-011-0104-2).
- Steinbach, G. 1967. Zur Hymenopterenfauna des Pliozäns von Willershausen/Westharz. Bericht der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover 111: 95–102.
- Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).