Paraphaenogaster shanwangensis
†Paraphaenogaster shanwangensis Temporal range: Early Miocene Shanwang, China | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Genus: | Paraphaenogaster |
Species: | †P. shanwangensis |
Binomial name | |
†Paraphaenogaster shanwangensis Hong, 1984 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Shanwang, China (Early Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †shanwangensis. †Paraphaenogaster shanwangense Hong, 1984: 8, pl. 3, fig. 1 (q.) CHINA (Miocene).
- [Justified emendation of spelling to Paraphaenogaster: Bolton, 1995b: 312.]
- Combination in Aphaenogaster (†Sinaphaenogaster): Zhang, J. 1989: 267.
- Combination in †Paraphaenogaster: Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 271.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 312.
Description
References
- 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.
- Hong, Y.-C. 1984 [1983]. Fossil insects in the diatoms of Shanwang. Bull. Tianjin Inst. Geol. Miner. Resour. 8: 1-12 (described)
- Zhang, J. 1989. Fossil insects from Shanwang, Shandong, China. Jinan, China: Shandong Science and Technology Publishing House, 459 pp. (page 266, see also)