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Kotshkorkia
| †Kotshkorkia Temporal range: Middle Miocene Chon-Tyz mine, Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae (incertae sedis) |
| Genus: | †Kotshkorkia Dlussky, 1981 |
| Type species | |
| Kotshkorkia laticeps | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Chon-Tyz mine, Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan (Middle Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †KOTSHKORKIA [incertae sedis in Dolichoderinae]
- †Kotshkorkia Dlussky, 1981: 71. Type-species: †Kotshkorkia laticeps, by original designation.
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 26, Kotshkorkia in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 219, Kotshkorkia in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 89, Kotshkorkia in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
- Dlussky, G. M. 1981a. Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR. Pp. 64-83 in: Vishnyakova, V. N., Dlussky, G. M., Pritykina, L. N. New fossil insects from the territories of the USSR. Tr. Paleontol. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 183:1-87. (page 71, Kotshkorkia as genus)
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 78, Kotshkorkia in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 17, 19, Kotshkorkia incertae sedis in Dolichoderinae; Kotshkorkia incertae sedis in Formicinae (error))
- Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 112:i-xix, 1-241. (page 115, Kotshkorkia in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)