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Rabidia
| †Rabidia Temporal range: Fossil | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | †Rabidia Hong, 1984 |
| Type species | |
| Rabidia xiejiaheensis, now Camponotites xiejiaheensis | |
This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Camponotites.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- RABIDIA [junior synonym of †Camponotites Steinbach]
- †Rabidia Hong, 1984: 8. Type-species: †Rabidia xiejiaheensis, by monotypy.
- †Rabidia "superfamiliae incertae sedis": Hong, 1984: 8.
- †Rabidia junior synonym of Oecophylla: Zhang, 1989: 297 [by implication as type-species of †Rabidia transferred to Oecophylla].
- †Rabidia junior synonym of †Camponotites: Dlussky, Wappler & Wedmann, 2008: 616 [by implication as type-species of †Rabidia transferred to †Camponotites].
References
- Dlussky, G. M. 1981a. Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR. Pp. 64-83 in: Vishnyakova, V. N., Dlussky, G. M., Pritykina, L. N. New fossil insects from the territories of the USSR. Tr. Paleontol. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 183:1-87. (page 76, Camponotites as genus)
- Dlussky, G.M., Karl, H.-V., Brauckmann, C., Gröning, E. & Reich, M. 2011. Two ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) from the Late Pliocene of Willershausen, Germany, with a nomenclatural note on the genus Camponotites. Paläontologishe Zeitscrift, 85:449–455 (DOI 10.1007/s12542-011-0104-2).