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Parameranoplus
| †Parameranoplus Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Parameranoplus primaevus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | †Parameranoplus Wheeler, W.M., 1915 |
| Type species | |
| Parameranoplus primaevus | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †PARAMERANOPLUS [incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: Meranoplini]
- †Parameranoplus Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 69. Type-species: †Parameranoplus primaevus, by monotypy.
Referencese
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, Parameranoplus in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 311, Parameranoplus in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 242, Parameranoplus in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 81, Parameranoplus incertae sedis in Myrmicinae)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 681, Parameranoplus in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini)
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 69, Parameranoplus in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini)