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Oecophylla taurica
| †Oecophylla taurica Temporal range: Middle Miocene Malyi Kamyshlak, Kerch, Crimea, Russian Federation | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Genus: | Oecophylla |
| Species: | †O. taurica |
| Binomial name | |
| †Oecophylla taurica Perfilieva, Dubovikoff & Dlussky, 2017 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Malyi Kamyshlak, Kerch, Crimea, Russian Federation (Middle Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †taurica. †Oecophylla taurica Perfilieva, Dubovikoff & Dlussky, 2017: 399, fig. 7, pl. 7, fig. 6 (wing) RUSSIA (Crimea, Miocene).
Type Material
Holotype. Partial imprint of thorax, petiole and forewing of a female (?); Crimea, Kerch Peninsula, Malyi Kamyshlak; Middle Miocene, Upper Tarkhanian (16.5-15.5 Ma bp) (Arthropod Laboratory of the A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, no. 4204/32).