Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: A. Forel. 1878. Études myrmécologiques en 1878 (première partie) avec l'anatomie du gésier des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 15:337-392
Parent taxon: Formicinae according to P. S. Ward et al. 2016
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012 and Wheeler 1915
Sister taxa: Andrena tertiaria, Attopsis, Camponotites, Curtipalpulus, Drymomyrmex, Eoleptocerites, Formica fragilis, Formicini, Fushuniformica, Gesomyrmecini, Heeridris, Huaxiaformica, Imhoffia, Kyromyrma, Lasiini, Leptogasteritus, Leucotaphus, Liaoformica, Longiformica, Magnogasterites, Myrmecorhynchus, Oecophyllini, Orbicapitia, Ovalicapito, Ovaligastrula, Palaeosminthurus, Palaeosminthurus juliae, Plagiolepidini, Protrechina, Sinoformica, Sinotenuicapito, Wilsonia
Subtaxa: Calomyrmex Camponotus Chimaeromyrma Colobopsis Eocamponotus Polyrhachis Pseudocamponotus Pseudocamponotus elkoanus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Colombia (2 collections), Greenland (5), Indonesia (1), Japan (2), Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene of Germany (2)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (4), Croatia (1), Germany (3), Greece (1), Japan (1), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mexico (2), United States (2: Alaska, Idaho)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Nevada)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Lithuania (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (7), Ukraine (2)
Total: 47 collections including 68 occurrences