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Cataglyphoides
| †Cataglyphoides Temporal range: 42–37 Ma Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Formicini |
| Genus: | †Cataglyphoides Dlussky, 2008 |
| Type species | |
| Camponotus constrictus, now Cataglyphoides constrictus | |
| Diversity | |
| 3 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †CATAGLYPHOIDES [Formicinae: Formicini]
- †Cataglyphoides Dlussky, 2008a: 46. Type-species: †Camponotus constrictus, by original designation.
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Blaimer, B.B., Brady, S.G., Schultz, T.R., Lloyd, M.W., Fisher, B.L., & Ward, P.S. 2015. Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15:271 (DOI 10.1186/s12862-015-0552-5).
- Radchenko A.G. and M.R. Khomych. 2020. Ants of the extinct genus Cataglyphoides Dlussky, 2008 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) from the late Eocene European ambers. Invertebrate Zoology. 17(2):154–161. doi:10.15298/invertzool.17.2.05
- 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).