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Tetraponera oligocenica
| †Tetraponera oligocenica Temporal range: Late Eocene Célas, Gard, France | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Pseudomyrmecinae |
| Genus: | Tetraponera |
| Species: | †T. oligocenica |
| Binomial name | |
| †Tetraponera oligocenica (Théobald, 1937) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Célas, Gard, France (Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †oligocenica. †Sima oligocenica Théobald, 1937b: 127, pl. 10, fig. 16 (caste?) FRANCE (Oligocene). Combination in Tetraponera: Ward, 1990: 489.
Description
References
- Theobald, N. 1937a. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Nancy: G. Thomas, 473 pp. (page 127, pl. 10, fig. 16 (caste?))
- Ward, P. S. 1990. The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): generic revision and relationship to other formicids. Syst. Entomol. 15: 449-489 (page 489, Combination in Tetraponera)