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Leucotaphus permancus
| †Leucotaphus permancus Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Genus: | Leucotaphus |
| Species: | †L. permancus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Leucotaphus permancus Cockerell, 1927 | |
The original description is short and of little help, and the holotype is lost from the National Museum of Natural History. We propose to consider this species as nomen dubium (Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 99).
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK (Priabonian, Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †permancus. †Leucotaphus permancus Cockerell, 1927: 165 (footnote) GREAT BRITAIN (Oligocene).
Description
References
- Cockerell, T. D. A. 1927. Fossil insects from the Miocene of Colorado. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(19): 161-166 (page 165, (footnote))
- Dlussky, G.M. & Perfilieva, K.S. 2014. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. In: Antropov, A. V., Belokobylskij, S. A., Compton, S. G., Dlussky, G. M., Khalaim, A. I., Kolyada, V. A., Kozlov, M. A., Perfilieva, K. S. & Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2014. The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104(3-4):335-446.