Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467
Parent taxon: Formicinae according to A. G. Radchenko and E. E. Perkovsky 2021
See also Bolton 2003, Bolton 2012, Ward et al. 2016 and Wheeler 1915
Sister taxa: Andrena tertiaria, Antiquiformica, Attopsis, Camponotini, Camponotites, Curtipalpulus, Drymomyrmex, Eoleptocerites, Formica fragilis, Fushuniformica, Gesomyrmecini, Heeridris, Huaxiaformica, Imhoffia, Kyromyrma, Lasiini, Leptogasteritus, Leucotaphus, Liaoformica, Longiformica, Magnogasterites, Myrmecorhynchus, Oecophyllini, Orbicapitia, Ovalicapito, Ovaligastrula, Palaeosminthurus, Palaeosminthurus juliae, Plagiolepidini, Protrechina, Sinoformica, Sinotenuicapito, Wilsonia
Subtaxa: Cataglyphis Cataglyphoides Conoformica Formica Glaphyromyrmex Protoformica
Type: Formica
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Greenland (1), United States (4: Colorado, Wisconsin)
• Turolian of France (1)
• Miocene of China (5), Croatia (3), Czechia (1), France (3), Georgia (1), Germany (9), Japan (1), Romania (1)
• Oligocene of France (3), Germany (3)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (2), Lithuania (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (19), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (1), United States (9: Colorado, Montana, Texas)
Total: 80 collections including 163 occurrences