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Khetania mandibulata
| †Khetania mandibulata Temporal range: Fossil | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Uncertain |
| Genus: | Khetania |
| Species: | †K. mandibulata |
| Binomial name | |
| †Khetania mandibulata Dlussky, 1999 | |
The taxonomomic placement of this species is uncertain and it is currently considered incertae sedis in Hymenoptera, Aculeata.
Distribution
This taxon was described from Russia (Cretaceous).
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †mandibulata. †Khetania mandibulata Dlussky, 1999a: 65, fig. 1 (q.) RUSSIA (Cretaceous).
- Excluded from Formicidae, incertae sedis in ACULEATA: Borysenko, 2017: 20 (by implication as genus excluded).
Description
References
- Borysenko, L.H. 2017. Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insecta Mundi 570: 1–57.
- Dlussky, G. M. 1999a. The first find of the Formicoidea (Hymenoptera) in the lower Cretaceous of the northern hemisphere. Paleontol. Zh. 1999(3 3: 62-66 (page 65, fig. 1 queen described)