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Formica arcana
| †Formica arcana Temporal range: Early Miocene? Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Formicini |
| Genus: | Formica |
| Species: | †F. arcana |
| Binomial name | |
| †Formica arcana Scudder, 1877 | |
Archibald et al. (2018) note that the determination of this taxon is in need of revision.
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada (Early Miocene?).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †arcana. †Formica arcana Scudder, 1877b: 266 (wing) CANADA.
- Carpenter, 1930: 21 treats this taxon as (Formicidae) arcana (Scudder).
Description
References
- 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).
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 191, catalogue)
- Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70: 1-66 (page 21, Formicidae arcana)
- 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 266, wing described)