Paraphaenogaster avita

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Paraphaenogaster avita
Temporal range: Middle Miocene Chôjaburu, Iki Island, Japan
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Paraphaenogaster
Species: P. avita
Binomial name
Paraphaenogaster avita
(Fujiyama, 1970)

Identification

Distribution

This taxon was described from Chôjaburu, Iki Island, Japan (Middle Miocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • avita. †Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma) avita Fujiyama, 1970: 67, pl. 15, figs. 2, 3 (q.) JAPAN (Miocene).
    • [Misspelled as axila by Burnham, 1979: 116.]
    • Combination in †Paraphaenogaster: Radchenko & Perkovsky, 2016: 944 (in text).
    • Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 116; Bolton, 1995b: 68.

Description

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