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, Antiquiformica, Attopsis, Camponotini, Camponotites, Curtipalpulus, Drymomyrmex, Eoleptocerites, Estevia, Formica fragilis, Formicini, Fushuniformica, Gesomyrmecini, Heeridris, Huaxiaformica, Imhoffia, Kyromyrma, Lasiini, Leptogasteritus, Leucotaphus, Liaoformica, Longiformica, Magnogasterites, Myrmecorhynchus, Oecophyllini, Orbicapitia, Ovalicapito, Ovaligastrula, Palaeosminthurus, Palaeosminthurus juliae, Protrechina, Sinoformica, Sinotenuicapito
Subtaxa: Acropyga Lepisiota Plagiolepis
Type: Plagiolepis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3), Italy (1)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), Germany (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (9), Ukraine (3)
Total: 23 collections including 45 occurrences