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Oecophylla megarche

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Oecophylla megarche was named by Cockerell (1915). Its type specimen is USNM 61423, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Entered
by M. Clapham on 2012-02-21

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Oecophylla megarche Cockerell p. 486 figs. Pl 65, figs 1-3
1920Oecophylla megarche Donisthorpe p. 91 figs. Pl 5, figs 11,12
2012Oecophylla megarche Bolton
2014Oecophylla megarche Dlussky and Perfilieva p. 426 figs. Pl 21, fig 6; text-fig 78A-E
2017Oecophylla megarche Perfilieva et al. p. 399
2021Oecophylla megarche Perfilieva p. 79

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
Antennoclypeata
Euformicia
Doryloformicia
Formicia
Formicomyrmida
Formicomorpha
subfamilyFormicinae
tribeOecophylliniEmery 1895
genusOecophyllaSmith 1860
speciesmegarche

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Oecophylla megarche Cockerell 1915
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available