Oecophylla crassinoda
†Oecophylla crassinoda Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Oecophyllini |
Genus: | Oecophylla |
Species: | †O. crassinoda |
Binomial name | |
†Oecophylla crassinoda Wheeler, W.M., 1922 | |
Synonyms | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †brevinodis †Oecophylla brevinodis Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 116, fig. 56 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). [Junior primary homonym of †brevinodis André, above.] Replacement name: †crassinoda Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 227.
- †crassinoda. †Oecophylla crassinoda Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 227. Replacement name for †brevinodis Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 116. [Junior primary homonym of brevinodis André, 1890: 313.]
Description
References
- Dlussky, G.M., Wappler, T. & Wedmann, S. 2008. New middle Eocene formicid species from Germany and the evolution of weaver ants. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (4): 615-626.
- Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 116, Replaced name brevinodis)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922b. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. II. The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 39-269 (page 227, Replacement name)