Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: E. O. Wilson. 1985. Ants from the Cretaceous and Eocene amber of North America. Psyche 92:205-216

Parent taxon: Formicinae according to P. S. Ward et al. 2016

See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012 and Wilson 1985

Sister taxa: Andrena tertiaria, Antiquiformica, Attopsis, Camponotini, 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, Sinoformica, Sinotenuicapito, Wilsonia

Subtaxa: Protrechina carpenteri

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Claiborne amber, Malvern (Eocene of Arkansas)

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