Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: G. M. Dlussky and K. S. Perfilieva. 2014. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104
Belongs to Paraphaenogaster according to G. M. Dlussky and K. S. Perfilieva 2014
Sister taxa: Paraphaenogaster avita, Paraphaenogaster bizeri, Paraphaenogaster dumetorum, Paraphaenogaster freihauti, Paraphaenogaster jurinei, Paraphaenogaster lapidescens, Paraphaenogaster loosi, Paraphaenogaster maculata, Paraphaenogaster maculipes, Paraphaenogaster microphthalmus, Paraphaenogaster paludosa, Paraphaenogaster pannonica, Paraphaenogaster schindleri, Paraphaenogaster shanwangensis, Paraphaenogaster tertiaria, Paraphaenogaster ussuriensis, Paraphaenogaster wettlauferi, Paraphaenogaster wuttkei
Type specimen: BMNH In.24963, a forewing. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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