Taphopone karaganensis
†Taphopone karaganensis Temporal range: Middle Miocene Vishnevaya Balka Creek, Stavropol, Russian Federation | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
Genus: | Taphopone |
Species: | †T. karaganensis |
Binomial name | |
†Taphopone karaganensis (Dlussky, 1981) |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Vishnevaya Balka Creek, Stavropol, Russian Federation (Middle Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †karaganensis. †Ponerites karaganensis Dlussky, 1981b: 68, fig. 50 (wing) RUSSIA (Miocene). Combination in Taphopone: Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 96.
Description
References
- 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 68, fig. 50 wing described)
- Dlussky, G.M. & Perfilieva, K.S. 2014. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. In: Antropov, A. V., Belokobylskij, S. A., Compton, S. G., Dlussky, G. M., Khalaim, A. I., Kolyada, V. A., Kozlov, M. A., Perfilieva, K. S. & Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2014. The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104(3-4):335-446.