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Formica acuminata
| †Formica acuminata Temporal range: Fossil | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Formicini |
| Genus: | Formica |
| Species: | †Formica acuminata Heer, 1849 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Formica ungeri.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †acuminata. †Formica acuminata Heer, 1849: 142, pl. 11, figs. 13, 14 (m.) CROATIA (Miocene). [Also described as new by Heer, 1850: 142.] Junior synonym of †ungeri: Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 256.
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 190, catalogue)
- Dlussky, G.M. & Putyatina, T.S. 2014. Early Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Radoboj, Croatia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 272, 237-285.
- Heer, O. 1849. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Zweiter Theil: Heuschrecken, Florfliegen, Aderflüger, Schmetterlinge und Fliegen. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, vi + 264 pp. (page 142, pl. 11, figs. 13, 14 male described)