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Wilsonia
| †Wilsonia Temporal range: Ypresian, Early Eocene Fushun amber, Liaoning, China | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Genus: | †Wilsonia Hong, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Wilsonia megagastrosa | |
| Diversity | |
| 2 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Fushun amber, Liaoning, China (Ypresian, Early Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †WILSONIA [incertae sedis in Formicinae]
- †Wilsonia Hong, 2002: 608. Type-species: †Wilsonia megagastrosa, by original designation. [Unresolved junior homonym of Wilsonia Bonaparte, 1838: 23 (Aves).]
Taxonomic Notes
Placed within the Formicinae but unplaced to tribe by Ward et al. (2016).
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Bonaparte, C. L. 1838. Geographical and comparative list of the birds of Europe and North America. London: John van Voorst, vii + 67 pp.
- Hong, Y.-C. 2002. Amber insects of China. Beijing Scientific and Technological Publishing House/Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, Beijing, in 2 vols. (page 608, Wilsonia as genus)
- Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).