Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: N. Theobald. 1937. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Bulletin Mensuel (Mémoires) de la Société des Sciences de Nancy 1:1-473
Belongs to Formica according to B. Bolton 2012
See also Theobald 1937
Sister taxa: Formica alsatica, Formica annosa, Formica arcana, Formica auxillacensis, Formica bauckhorni, Formica biamoensis, Formica buphthalma, Formica cantalica, Formica ceps, Formica cockerelli, Formica demersa, Formica eoptera, Formica flavifemoralis, Formica flori, Formica fusca, Formica globiventris, Formica grandis, Formica gravida, Formica gustawi, Formica heteroptera, Formica horrida, Formica immersa, Formica kutscheri, Formica latinodosa, Formica lavateri, Formica linquensis, Formica longicollis, Formica macrocephala, Formica macrophthalma, Formica maculipennis, Formica martynovi, Formica neorufibarbis, Formica obscura, Formica orbata, Formica ovala, Formica palaeopolonica, Formica paleosibirica, Formica parexsecta, Formica phaethusa, Formica pitoni, Formica primitiva, Formica primordialis, Formica procera, Formica pulchella, Formica radchenkoi, Formica ribbeckei, Formica robusta, Formica serresi, Formica seuberti, Formica strangulata, Formica surinamensis, Formica tripartita, Formica ungeri, Formica zherikhini
Type specimen: Coll Museum Paris Am 5, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Aix-en-Provence (MNHN Paris Coll), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - large limestone in the Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Oligocene of France (2 collections), Germany (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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