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