Camponotus cockerelli
†Camponotus cockerelli Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Genus: | Camponotus |
Species: | †C. cockerelli |
Binomial name | |
†Camponotus cockerelli (Donisthorpe, 1920) |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK (Priabonian, Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †cockerelli. †Leucotaphus cockerelli Donisthorpe, 1920: 90, pl. 5, fig. 10 (m.) GREAT BRITAIN (Isle of Wight, Eocene).
- Combination in Camponotus: Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 419.
- Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 111; Bolton, 1995b: 246; Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 419 (redescription).
Description
References
- 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.
- Donisthorpe, H. 1920b. British Oligocene ants. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 9(6): 81-94 (page 90, pl. 5, fig. 10 male described)
- 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).