Oecophylla macroptera

†Oecophylla macroptera Temporal range: Middle Miocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Vishnevaya Balka Creek, Stavropol, Russian Federation
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Genus:	Oecophylla
Species:	†O. macroptera
Binomial name
†Oecophylla macroptera (Dlussky, 1981)

Distribution

This taxon was described from Vishnevaya Balka Creek, Stavropol, Russian Federation (Middle Miocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †macroptera. †Camponotites macropterus Dlussky, 1981b: 76, fig. 53 (q.) RUSSIA (Middle Miocene).
  • Combination in Oecophylla: Perfilieva, et al. 2017: 399 (in text).
  • Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 83; Dlussky, Karl, et al. 2011: 452.

References

• Dlussky, G. M. 1981a. Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR. Pp. 64-83 in: Vishnyakova, V. N., Dlussky, G. M., Pritykina, L. N. New fossil insects from the territories of the USSR. Tr. Paleontol. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 183:1-87. (page 76, fig. 53 queen described)
• 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).
• Perfilieva, K.S., Dubovikoff, D.A. & Dlussky, G.M. 2017. Miocene ants from Crimea. Paleontological Journal 51 (4): 391-401. (Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2017 (4): 54-64.)