Shanwangella
†Shanwangella Temporal range: Early Miocene Shanwang, China | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Genus: | †Shanwangella Zhang, J., 1989 |
Type species | |
Shanwangella palaeoptera | |
Diversity | |
1 fossil species (Species Checklist) |
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.
- †SHANWANGELLA [Dolichoderinae]
- †Shanwangella Zhang, J. 1989: 307. Type-species: †Shanwangella palaeoptera, by original designation.
- †Shanwangella junior synonym of Camponotus: Hong & Wu, 2000: 20.
- †Shanwangella in Dolichoderinae: Perfilieva, 2022: 419.
- †Shanwangella as genus: Perfilieva, 2022: 419.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 112, Shanwangella as junior synonym of Camponotus)
- Hong, Y.; Wu, J. 2000. The emendation of Shanwangella palaeoptera Zhang and its concerned problems. Geoscience (Beijing) 14: 15-20 (page 20, Shanwangella as junior synonym of 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).
- Zhang, J. 1989. Fossil insects from Shanwang, Shandong, China. Jinan, China: Shandong Science and Technology Publishing House, 459 pp. (page 307, Shanwangella as genus)