Oecophylla kraussei

†Oecophylla kraussei Temporal range: Ypresian, Early Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Klondike Formation, Republic, Washington, United States
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Genus:	Oecophylla
Species:	†O. kraussei
Binomial name
†Oecophylla kraussei (Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 1999)

Distribution

This taxon was described from Klondike Formation, Republic, Washington, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• †kraussei. †Camponotites kraussei Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 1999: 74, fig. 2 (q.) U.S.A. (Middle Eocene).
  • Combination in Oecophylla: Perfilieva, et al. 2017: 399 (in text).
  • Status as species: Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002: 418; Dlussky, Karl, et al. 2011: 452.

References

• Archibald, S.B., Rasnitsyn, A.P., Brothers, D.J., Mathewes, R.W. 2018. Modernisation of the Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 150, 205-257 (doi:10.4039/tce.2017.59).
• Dlussky, G.M., Karl, H.-V., Brauckmann, C., Gröning, E. & Reich, M. 2011. Two ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) from the Late Pliocene of Willershausen, Germany, with a nomenclatural note on the genus Camponotites. Paläontologishe Zeitscrift, 85:449–455 (DOI 10.1007/s12542-011-0104-2).
• Dlussky, G. M.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 1999a. Two new species of aculeate Hymenoptera (Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Middle Eocene of the United States. Paleontol. Zh. 1999(5 5: 72-75.
• Perfilieva, K.S., Dubovikoff, D.A. & Dlussky, G.M. 2017. Miocene ants from Crimea. Paleontological Journal 51 (4): 391-401. (Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2017 (4): 54-64.)