Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Parent taxon: Formicinae according to P. S. Ward et al. 2016
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012 and Wheeler 1915
Sister taxa: Andrena tertiaria, 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, Protrechina, Sinoformica, Sinotenuicapito, Wilsonia
Subtaxa: Acropyga Plagiolepis
Type: Plagiolepis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections), Italy (1)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), Germany (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (9), Ukraine (3)
Total: 22 collections including 44 occurrences