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Camponotites silvestris
| †Camponotites silvestris Temporal range: Late Pliocene Willershausen, Lower Saxony, Germany | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Genus: | Camponotites |
| Species: | †C. silvestris |
| Binomial name | |
| †Camponotites silvestris Steinback, 1967 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Willershausen, Lower Saxony, Germany (Late Pliocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †silvestris. †Camponotites silvestris Steinbach, 1967: 101, fig. 7 (q.) GERMANY (Lower Saxony, Pliocene).
- Status as species: Dlussky, Karl, et al. 2011: 452 (redescription).
Description
References
- 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).
- Steinbach, G. 1967. Zur Hymenopterenfauna des Pliozäns von Willershausen/Westharz. Bericht der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover 111: 95–102.