Curtipalpulus

†Curtipalpulus Temporal range: Ypresian, Early Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Fushun amber, Liaoning, China
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Genus:	†Curtipalpulus Hong, 2002
Type species
Curtipalpulus eocenicus
Diversity
1 fossil species (Species Checklist)

The taxonomomic placement of this genus has been uncertain but Ward et al. (2016) places it within the Formicinae (but unplaced to tribe).

Distribution

This taxon is known from Fushun amber, Liaoning, China (Ypresian, Early Eocene).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• †CURTIPALPULUS [incertae sedis in Formicidae (probably Dolichoderinae)]
  • †Curtipalpulus Hong, 2002: 612. Type-species: †Curtipalpulus eocenicus, by original designation.

References

• Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
• Hong, Y.-C. 2002. Amber insects of China. Beijing Scientific and Technological Publishing House/Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, Beijing, in 2 vols. (page 612, Curtipalpulus as genus)
• Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).