Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Parent taxon: Formicinae according to S. B. Archibald et al. 2024
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, Ward et al. 2016 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, Orbicapitia, Ovalicapito, Ovaligastrula, Palaeosminthurus, Palaeosminthurus juliae, Plagiolepidini, Protrechina, Sinoformica, Sinotenuicapito
Subtaxa: Eoecophylla Oecophylla
Type: Oecophylla
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indonesia (1 collection)
• Turolian of France (1)
• Miocene of Croatia (3), Italy (1), Kenya (1), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Canada (2: British Columbia), Czechia (1), Germany (5), Lithuania (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (5), United States (2: Mississippi, Washington)
Total: 36 collections including 41 occurrences