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Formica capito
| †Formica capito 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 capito Heer, 1867 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Lasius globularis.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †capito. †Formica capito Heer, 1867: 14, pl. 1, fig. 13 (q.) CROATIA (Miocene). Junior synonym of globularis: Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 265.
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 192, 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. 1867. Fossile Hymenopteren aus Oeningen und Radoboj. Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Gesammten Naturwiss. 22(4 4: 1-42 (page 14, pl. 1, fig. 13 queen described)