Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Alternative combinations: Aphaenogaster (Sinaphaenogaster) shanwangensis, Aphaenogaster shanwangensis

Full reference: Y. C. Hong. 1984. Fossil insects in the diatoms of Shanwang. Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources 8:1-15

Belongs to Paraphaenogaster according to A. G. Radchenko and E. E. Perkovsky 2016

See also Bolton 2012, Hong 1984 and Zhang 1989

Sister taxa: Paraphaenogaster avita, Paraphaenogaster bizeri, Paraphaenogaster dumetorum, Paraphaenogaster freihauti, Paraphaenogaster hooleyana, Paraphaenogaster jurinei, Paraphaenogaster lapidescens, Paraphaenogaster loosi, Paraphaenogaster maculata, Paraphaenogaster maculipes, Paraphaenogaster microphthalmus, Paraphaenogaster paludosa, Paraphaenogaster pannonica, Paraphaenogaster schindleri, Paraphaenogaster tertiaria, Paraphaenogaster ussuriensis, Paraphaenogaster wettlauferi, Paraphaenogaster wuttkei

Type specimen: Beijing Museum of Natural History 79047, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection 79/80 (Beijing Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.

Distribution: found only at Shanwang, Linqu County, collection 79/80 (Beijing Museum)

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