Paraphaenogaster maculata
†Paraphaenogaster maculata Temporal range: Chattian stage, Late Oligocene Aix-en-Provence, France | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Genus: | Paraphaenogaster |
Species: | †P. maculata |
Binomial name | |
†Paraphaenogaster maculata (Théobald, 1937) |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Aix-en-Provence, France (Late Oligocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †maculata. †Aphaenogaster maculata Théobald, 1937b: 313, pl. 25, fig. 5, pl. 26, fig. 14 (m.?) FRANCE (Oligocene).
- Combination in †Paraphaenogaster: Radchenko & Perkovsky, 2016: 944 (in text).
- Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 109; Bolton, 1995b: 71.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 71, catalogue)
- Dlussky, G.M. & Putyatina, T.S. 2014. Early Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Radoboj, Croatia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 272, 237-285.
- Theobald, N. 1937a. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Nancy: G. Thomas, 473 pp. (page 313, pl. 25, figs. 5, pl. 26, fig. 14 male? described)