Orapia

†Orapia Temporal range: Turonian, Late Cretaceous K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl ↓ Orapa kimberlitic deposits, Botswana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Sphecomyrminae
Tribe:	Sphecomyrmini
Genus:	†Orapia Dlussky, Brothers & Rasnitsyn, 2004
Type species
Orapia rayneri
Diversity
2 fossil species

Distribution

This taxon is known from Orapa kimberlitic deposits, Botswana (Turonian, Late Cretaceous).

Nomenclature

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

• †ORAPIA [†Sphecomyrminae: †Sphecomyrmini]
  • †Orapia Dlussky, Brothers & Rasnitsyn, 2004: 2. Type-species: †Orapia rayneri, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

• †Orapia in †Armaniinae: Dlussky, et al. 2004: 2.
• †Orapia in †Sphecomyrminae, †Sphecomyrmini: Borysenko, 2017: 15, 17.
• †Orapia as genus: all authors.
• †Orapia references: Archibald, et al. 2006: 510 (discussion of taxonomy).

References

• Borysenko, L.H. 2017. Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insecta Mundi 570: 1–57.
• Boudinot, B.E., Richter, A., Katzke, J., Chaul, J.C.M., Keller, R.A., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R.G., Yamamoto, S. 2022. Evidence for the evolution of eusociality in stem ants and a systematic revision of †Gerontoformica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX:1-35 (doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab097/6523228).
• Cantone, S., Von Zuben, C.J. 2019. The hindwings of ants: A phylogenetic analysis. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 2019, 1–11 (doi:10.1155/2019/7929717).
• Dlussky, G. M.; Brother, D. J.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2004. The first Late Cretaceous ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from southern Africa, with comments on the origin of the Myrmicinae. Insect Systematics & Evolution 35(1): 1-13 (page 2, Orapia as genus)