Casaleia inversa
†Casaleia inversa Temporal range: Middle Miocene Chon-Tyz mine, Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Amblyoponinae |
Tribe: | Amblyoponini |
Genus: | Casaleia |
Species: | †C. inversa |
Binomial name | |
†Casaleia inversa (Dlussky, 1981) |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Chon-Tyz mine, Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan (Middle Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †inversa. †Protamblyopone inversa Dlussky, 1981b: 65, fig. 50 (w.) KYRGYZSTAN (Miocene).
- Combination in *Casaleia: Bolton, 1995b: 134.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 134.
- [Note: Pagliano & Scaramozzino, 1990: 5, did not indicate the combination of this species in *Casaleia.]
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 134, Combination in Casaleia)
- Dlussky, G. M. 1981a. Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR. Pp. 64-83 in: Vishnyakova, V. N., Dlussky, G. M., Pritykina, L. N. New fossil insects from the territories of the USSR. Tr. Paleontol. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 183:1-87. (page 65, fig. 50 worker described)