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Aphaenogaster longaeva
| †Aphaenogaster longaeva Temporal range: Early Miocene? Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Aphaenogaster |
| Species: | †A. longaeva |
| Binomial name | |
| †Aphaenogaster longaeva 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.
- †longaeva. †Aphaenogaster longaeva Scudder, 1877b: 267 (m.) CANADA (British Columbia, Eocene).
- Incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: Carpenter, 1930: 21; Radchenko & Perkovsky, 2016: 943 (in text).
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 103; Handlirsch, 1907: 874; Bolton, 1995b: 70.
Description
References
- Archibald, S.B., Rasnitsyn, A.P., Brothers, D.J., Mathewes, R.W. 2018. Modernisation of the Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 150, 205-257 (doi:10.4039/tce.2017.59).
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 70, catalogue)
- Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70: 1-66 (page 21, included as (Myrmicinae) longaeva)
- Scudder, S. H. 1877a. Appendix to Mr. George M. Dawson's report. The insects of the Tertiary beds at Quesnel. Rep. Prog. Geol. Surv. Can. 1875- 1876: 266-280 (page 267, male described)