Oecophylla macroptera

†Oecophylla macroptera; Temporal range: Middle Miocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Vishnevaya Balka Creek, Stavropol, Russian Federation
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Genus:	Oecophylla
Species:	†O. macroptera
Binomial name
	†Oecophylla macroptera; (Dlussky, 1981)

Identification

This taxon was described from Vishnevaya Balka Creek, Stavropol, Russian Federation (Middle Miocene).

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

†macroptera. †Camponotites macropterus Dlussky, 1981b: 76, fig. 53 (q.) RUSSIA (Middle Miocene).
- Combination in Oecophylla: Perfilieva, et al. 2017: 399 (in text).
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 83; Dlussky, Karl, et al. 2011: 452.

Archibald, S.B., Mathewes, R.W., Perfilieva, K.S. 2024. Fossil weaver ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Oecophyllini) of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of far-western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 156, e2, 1–16 (doi:10.4039/tce.2023.27).
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 76, fig. 53 queen described)
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).
Perfilieva, K.S. 2021. Distribution and differentiation of fossil Oecophylla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species by wing imprints. Paleontological Journal 55(1), 76–89 (doi:10.1134/s003103012101010x).
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.)