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Eoformica expectans
| †Eoformica expectans Temporal range: Early Oligocene Kleinkems, Germany | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Uncertain |
| Genus: | Eoformica |
| Species: | †E. expectans |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eoformica expectans (Théobald, 1937) | |
Two fossil species of Gesomyrmex were described from the Oligocene of Germany based on incomplete compressions (Théobald, 1937) but were excluded from this genus by Dlussky et al. (2009): Gesomyrmex expectans was transferred to Eoformica and Gesomyrmex miegi was treated as incertae sedis in Formicidae (Aria et al., 2023).
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Kleinkems, Germany (Early Oligocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †expectans. †Gesomyrmex expectans Théobald, 1937b: 210, pl. 4, fig. 13; pl. 14, fig. 21 (m.) FRANCE (Oligocene). Combination in †Eoformica: Dlussky, Wappler & Wedmann, 2009: 14.
Description
References
- Aria, C., Jouault, C., Perrichot, V., Nel, A. 2023. The megathermal ant genus Gesomyrmex (Formicidae: Formicinae), palaeoindicator of wide latitudinal biome homogeneity during the PETM. Geological Magazine, 1–11 (doi:10.1017/s0016756822001248).
- Dlussky, G.M., Wappler, T., Wedmann, S. 2009. Fossil ants of the genus Gesomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Eocene of Europe and remarks on the evolution of arboreal ant communities. Zootaxa 2031: 1-20 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2031.1.1).
- 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 211, pl. 14, figs. 22, 23 queen, male described)