Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Synonyms: Camponotites Dlussky 1981, Rabidia Hong 1984
Full reference: G. Steinbach. 1967. Zur Hymenopterenfauna des Pliozäns von Willershausen/Westharz. Bericht der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover 111:95-102
Parent taxon: Formicinae according to P. S. Ward et al. 2016
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, Carpenter 1992, Dlussky et al. 2011, Hong 1984 and Steinbach 1967
Sister taxa: Andrena tertiaria, Attopsis, Camponotini, 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: Camponotites ambon Camponotites ampullosus Camponotites cockerelli Camponotites compactus Camponotites crozei Camponotites curviansatus Camponotites fuscipennis Camponotites gracilis Camponotites heracleus Camponotites induratus Camponotites lignitus Camponotites longiventris Camponotites longus Camponotites microcephalus Camponotites microthoracus Camponotites novotnyi Camponotites obesus Camponotites oeningensis Camponotites penninervis Camponotites petrifactus Camponotites pictus Camponotites plenus Camponotites shanwangensis Camponotites silvestris Camponotites steinbachi Camponotites theobaldi Camponotites tokunagai Camponotites ullrichi Camponotites vehemens Camponotites vetus Camponotites xiejiaheensis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Germany (2 collections)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (5), Croatia (5), France (2), Germany (4), the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1), France (4), Germany (2)
• Eocene of China (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (6: Colorado, Montana, Utah)
Total: 38 collections including 58 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.