Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1877. The insects of the Tertiary beds at Quesnel (British Colombia). Report of Progress of the Geological Survey of Canada 1875-1876 266-280

Belongs to Formica according to B. Bolton 2012

See also Carpenter 1930, Scudder 1877 and Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Formica alsatica, Formica annosa, Formica auxillacensis, Formica bauckhorni, Formica biamoensis, Formica buphthalma, Formica cantalica, Formica ceps, Formica cockerelli, Formica demersa, Formica eoptera, Formica flavifemoralis, Formica flori, Formica fusca, Formica globiventris, Formica grandis, Formica gravida, Formica gustawi, Formica heteroptera, Formica horrida, Formica immersa, Formica kutscheri, Formica latinodosa, Formica lavateri, Formica linquensis, Formica longicollis, Formica macrocephala, Formica macrophthalma, Formica maculipennis, Formica martynovi, Formica neorufibarbis, Formica obscura, Formica orbata, Formica ovala, Formica palaeopolonica, Formica paleosibirica, Formica parexsecta, Formica phaethusa, Formica pitoni, Formica primitiva, Formica primordialis, Formica procera, Formica pulchella, Formica radchenkoi, Formica ribbeckei, Formica robusta, Formica sepulta, Formica serresi, Formica seuberti, Formica strangulata, Formica surinamensis, Formica tripartita, Formica ungeri, Formica zherikhini

Type specimen: GSC 10a, a wing. Its type locality is Quesnel, which is in a Priabonian lacustrine shale in the Australian Creek Formation of Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Quesnel

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