Camponotus heracleus
†Camponotus heracleus Temporal range: Messinian, Late Miocene Oeningen, Switzerland | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Camponotini |
Genus: | Camponotus |
Species: | †C. heracleus |
Binomial name | |
†Camponotus heracleus (Heer, 1849) |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Oeningen, Switzerland (Messinian, Late Miocene) and is also known from Radoboj, Croatia (Burdigalian, Early Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †heracleus. †Formica heraclea Heer, 1849: 116, pl. 11, fig. 3 (m.) GERMANY (Miocene).
- [Also described as new by Heer, 1850: 116.]
- Combination in Camponotus: Mayr, 1867b: 52.
- Status as species: Giebel, 1856: 162; Heer, 1867: 9; Mayr, 1867b: 52; Scudder, 1891: 692, 701; Dalla Torre, 1893: 233; Handlirsch, 1907: 868; Bolton, 1995b: 103.
Description
References
- Heer, O. 1849. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Zweiter Theil: Heuschrecken, Florfliegen, Aderflüger, Schmetterlinge und Fliegen. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, vi + 264 pp. (page 116, pl. 11, fig. 3 male described)
- Mayr, G. 1867b. Vorläufige Studien über die Radoboj-Formiciden, in der Sammlung der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. Jahrb. K-K. Geol. Reichsanst. Wien 17: 47-62 (page 52, Combination in Camponotus)
- Perfilieva, K.S. 2022. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from localities of the Russian Far East (Amgu, Velikaya Kema). Paleontological Journal, 56(4), 412–425 (doi:10.1134/s0031030122040086).