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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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