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Carebara thorali
| †Carebara thorali Temporal range: Chattian stage, Late Oligocene Aix-en-Provence, France | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Carebara |
| Species: | †C. thorali |
| Binomial name | |
| †Carebara thorali (Théobald, 1937) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Aix-en-Provence, France (Late Oligocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †thorali. †Erebomyrma thorali Théobald, 1937a: 157, fig. 1 (m.) GERMANY (Oligocene).
- Combination in Oligomyrmex: Bolton, 1995b: 300;
- combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
- Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 110; Bolton, 1995b: 300.
Taxonomic Notes
Radchenko et al. (2019): Carebara schossnicensis (originally placed to the genus Pheidologeton) was described based only on the forewing imprint and its venation was almost identical to that of Myrmica rugiceps (now Carebara rugiceps) (Assmann 1870); so, C. schossnicensis might, with equal probability, be attributed to the genus Carebara or to the morphogenus Paraphaenogaster, or even to some other myrmicine genera. The same may be true for Carebara thorali, which was described based on male.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 300, Combination in Oligomyrmex)
- Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26(1): 191-238 (page 235, Combination in Carebara)
- Théobald, N. 1937b. Notes complémentaire sur les insectes fossiles oligocènes des gypses d'Aix-en-Provence. Bull. Mens. Soc. Sci. Nancy (n.s.5) 6: 157-178 (page 157, fig. 1 male described)
- Radchenko, A.G., Dlussky, G.M., Gröhn, C. 2019. New extinct species of the ant genus Carebara (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the late Eocene European ambers. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 69: 609-616 (doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2019.69.3.010).