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Solenopsites
| †Solenopsites Temporal range: 48–34 Ma Lutetian, Middle Eocene to Priabonian, Late Eocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | †Solenopsites Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Solenopsites minutus | |
| Diversity | |
| 3 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK (Priabonian, Late Eocene); Green River Formation, Colorado, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene) and Kishenehn Formation shale, Montana, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †SOLENOPSITES [incertae sedis in Myrmicinae]
- †Solenopsites Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002: 422. Type-species: †Solenopsites minutus, by original designation.
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Dlussky, G. M.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2003 [2002]. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other Middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russ. Entomol. J. 11(4): 411-436 (page 422, Solenopsites *Dlussky, G.M. & Perfilieva, K.S. 2014. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. In: Antropov, A. V., Belokobylskij, S. A., Compton, S. G., Dlussky, G. M., Khalaim, A. I., Kolyada, V. A., Kozlov, M. A., Perfilieva, K. S. & Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2014. The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104(3-4):335-446.
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