Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Alternative combination: Aphaenogaster maculata
Full reference: N. Theobald. 1937. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Bulletin Mensuel (Mémoires) de la Société des Sciences de Nancy 1:1-473
Belongs to Paraphaenogaster according to A. G. Radchenko and E. E. Perkovsky 2016
See also Bolton 2012 and Theobald 1937
Sister taxa: Paraphaenogaster avita, Paraphaenogaster bizeri, Paraphaenogaster dumetorum, Paraphaenogaster freihauti, Paraphaenogaster hooleyana, Paraphaenogaster jurinei, Paraphaenogaster lapidescens, Paraphaenogaster loosi, Paraphaenogaster maculipes, Paraphaenogaster microphthalmus, Paraphaenogaster paludosa, Paraphaenogaster pannonica, Paraphaenogaster schindleri, Paraphaenogaster shanwangensis, Paraphaenogaster tertiaria, Paraphaenogaster ussuriensis, Paraphaenogaster wettlauferi, Paraphaenogaster wuttkei
Type specimen: Inst. Geol. Marseille M 55, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Aix-en-Provence (Museum Marseille Coll), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - large limestone in the Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Oligocene of France (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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