Formica eoptera
†Formica eoptera Temporal range: Late Eocene Mossy Creek, near Wellborn, Texas, United States | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Formicini |
Genus: | Formica |
Species: | †F. eoptera |
Binomial name | |
†Formica eoptera Cockerell, 1923 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Mossy Creek, near Wellborn, Texas, United States (Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †eoptera. †Formica eoptera Cockerell, 1923b: 399, fig. 1 (wing) U.S.A. (Eocene).
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 194, catalogue)
- Cockerell, T. D. A. 1923b. Fossil insects from the Eocene of Texas. Am. J. Sci. 5: 397-410 (page 399, fig. 1 wing described)