Dolichoderus obliteratus

†Dolichoderus obliteratus; Temporal range: Early Miocene? K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	Dolichoderini
Genus:	Dolichoderus
Species:	†D. obliteratus
Binomial name
	†Dolichoderus obliteratus; (Scudder, 1877)

Archibald et al. (2018) note that the determination of this taxon is in need of revision.

Identification

This taxon was described from Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada (Early Miocene?).

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

†obliteratus. †Hypoclinea obliterata Scudder, 1877b: 267 (wing) CANADA (Miocene).
- Combination in Dolichoderus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 160.
- Included as "(Dolichoderinae) obliterata" by Carpenter, 1930: 21.
- See also: Mackay, 1993b: 79; Shattuck, 1994: 171.

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).
Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70: 1-66 (page 21, Included as (Dolichoderinae) obliterata)
Dalla Torre, K. W. von. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. (page 160, Combination in Dolichoderus)
Mackay, W. P. 1993b. A review of the New World ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 22: 1-148 (page 79, see also)
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, wing described)
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 112:i-xix, 1-241. (page 171, see also)