Camponotites silvestris

†Camponotites silvestris; Temporal range: Late Pliocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Willershausen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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

This taxon was described from Willershausen, Lower Saxony, Germany (Late Pliocene).

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); Boudinot et al., 2024: 145.

Archibald, S.B., Mathewes, R.W., Perfilieva, K.S. 2024. Fossil weaver ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Oecophyllini) of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of far-western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 156, e2, 1–16 (doi:10.4039/tce.2023.27).
Boudinot, B.E., Bock, B.L., Weingardt, M., Tröger, D., Batelka, J., LI, D., Richter, A., Pohl, H., Moosdorf, O.T.D., Jandausch, K., Hammel, J.U., Beutel, R. G. 2024. Et latet et lucet: Discoveries from the Phyletisches Museum amber and copal collection in Jena, Germany. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 711, 111–176 (doi:10.3897/dez.71.112433).
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. 2021. Distribution and differentiation of fossil Oecophylla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species by wing imprints. Paleontological Journal 55(1), 76–89 (doi:10.1134/s003103012101010x).
Steinbach, G. 1967. Zur Hymenopterenfauna des Pliozäns von Willershausen/Westharz. Bericht der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover 111: 95–102.