Promyrmicium boreale

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Promyrmicium boreale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Genus: Promyrmicium
Species: P. boreale
Binomial name
Promyrmicium boreale
Heer, 1870

This species has been transferred to the family Ichneumonidae.

Nomenclature

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

  • boreale. †Myrmicium boreale Heer, 1870: 78, pl. 16, fig. 46 (fragment) NORWAY (Miocene).
    • Incertae sedis in †Myrmicium: Handlirsch, 1907: 878.
    • Combination in †Promyrmicium: Baroni Urbani, 1971b: 362.
    • Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 720; Baroni Urbani, 1971b: 362; Bolton, 1995b: 369.
    • Excluded from Formicidae; transferred to family Ichneumonidae: Birket-Smith, 1977: 8.

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