Formica arcana

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Formica arcana
Temporal range: Early Miocene? Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Formicini
Genus: Formica
Species: F. arcana
Binomial name
Formica arcana
Scudder, 1877

Archibald et al. (2018) note that the determination of this taxon is in need of revision.

Identification

Distribution

This taxon was described from Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada (Early Miocene?).

Castes

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • arcana. †Formica arcana Scudder, 1877b: 266 (wing) CANADA.
    • Carpenter, 1930: 21 treats this taxon as (Formicidae) arcana (Scudder).

Description

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