Formica eoptera Cockerell 1923 (ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1923. Fossil Insects from the Eocene of Texas. The American Journal of Science, Fifth Series 5(29):397-400

Belongs to Formica according to B. Bolton 2012

See also Carpenter 1930 and Cockerell 1923

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 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 sepulta, Formica serresi, Formica seuberti, Formica strangulata, Formica surinamensis, Formica tripartita, Formica ungeri, Formica zherikhini

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mossy Creek SW of Wellborn, which is in an Eocene delta plain claystone in the Fayette sandstone Formation of Texas

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Mossy Creek SW of Wellborn

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