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Oecophylla obesa

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Formica obesa was named by Heer (1849). Its type specimen is UMJG&P 77.625, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Radoboj (Grätz Collection), which is in a Sarmatian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in Croatia.

It was recombined as Oecophylla obesa by Mayr (1867), Deichmüller (1881), Dlussky et al. (2008), Bolton (2012), Dlussky and Putyatina (2014), Perfilieva et al. (2017) and Perfilieva (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Formica obesa Heer p. 108 figs. Pl 8, fig 1
1849Formica pinguis Heer p. 110 figs. Pl 8, figs 3,4
1849Attopsis anthracina Heer p. 156 figs. Pl 12, fig 12
1849Attopsis nigra Heer p. 157 figs. Pl 12, fig 13
1867Attopsis anthracina Heer p. 29
1867Attopsis nigra Heer p. 29
1867Camponotus pinguis Mayr p. 51
1867Oecophylla obesa Mayr p. 51
1867Cataulacus anthracinus Mayr p. 58
1881Oecophylla obesa Deichmüller p. 325 figs. Pl 21, figs 14,15,15a
1891Attopsis nigra Förster p. 440 figs. Pl 13, fig 11
1974Cataulacus anthracinus Bolton p. 87
2008Oecophylla obesa Dlussky et al. p. 615
2012Camponotus pinguis Bolton
2012Cataulacus anthracinus Bolton
2012Oecophylla obesa Bolton
2014Oecophylla obesa Dlussky and Putyatina p. 252 figs. 5A-F, 18A,B,E
2017Oecophylla obesa Perfilieva et al. p. 399
2021Oecophylla obesa Perfilieva p. 79

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
—Antennoclypeata
subfamilyFormicinae
tribeOecophylliniEmery 1895
genusOecophyllaSmith 1860
speciesobesa()

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 obesa Heer 1849
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Invalid names: Attopsis anthracina Heer 1849 [synonym], Attopsis nigra Heer 1849 [synonym], Formica pinguis Heer 1849 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Eocene to the top of the Sarmatian or 37.20000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9Czech Republic Oecophylla obesa (138883)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4France Attopsis nigra (121476)
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Formica pinguis (115304 115305 117260)
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Croatia Formica obesa, Formica pinguis, Attopsis anthracina, Attopsis nigra (type locality: 117246) Oecophylla obesa (113698 117247)