Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Alternative combinations: Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma) avita, Aphaenogaster avita
Full reference: I. Fujiyama. 1970. Fossil insects from the Chojabaru Formation, Iki Island, Japan. Memoires of the Natural Science Museum, Tokyo 3:65-74
Belongs to Paraphaenogaster according to A. G. Radchenko and E. E. Perkovsky 2016
See also Bolton 2012 and Fujiyama 1970
Sister taxa: Paraphaenogaster bizeri, Paraphaenogaster dumetorum, Paraphaenogaster freihauti, Paraphaenogaster hooleyana, Paraphaenogaster jurinei, Paraphaenogaster lapidescens, Paraphaenogaster loosi, Paraphaenogaster maculata, Paraphaenogaster maculipes, Paraphaenogaster microphthalmus, Paraphaenogaster paludosa, Paraphaenogaster pannonica, Paraphaenogaster schindleri, Paraphaenogaster shanwangensis, Paraphaenogaster tertiaria, Paraphaenogaster ussuriensis, Paraphaenogaster wettlauferi, Paraphaenogaster wuttkei
Type specimen: NSM-P1-7417 (Tokyo), an exoskeleton (Female complete body). Its type locality is Chojabaru-zaki, Iki Island, which is in a Langhian lacustrine - small diatomite in the Chojabaru Formation of Japan.
Distribution: found only at Chojabaru-zaki, Iki Island
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