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Leptogasteritus
| †Leptogasteritus Temporal range: Ypresian, Early Eocene Fushun amber, Liaoning, China | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Genus: | †Leptogasteritus Hong, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Leptogasteritus capricornutes | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
The taxonomomic placement of this genus has been uncertain but Ward et al. (2016) places it within the Formicinae (but unplaced to tribe).
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Fushun amber, Liaoning, China (Ypresian, Early Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †LEPTOGASTERITUS [incertae sedis in Formicidae (probably Dolichoderinae)]
- †Leptogasteritus Hong, 2002: 577. Type-species: †Leptogasteritus capricornutes, by original designation.
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Hong, Y.-C. 2002. Amber insects of China. Beijing Scientific and Technological Publishing House/Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, Beijing, in 2 vols. (page 577, Leptogasteritus as genus)
- Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).