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Rhytidoponera waipiata

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Rhytidoponera waipiata was named by Kaulfuss and Dlussky (2016). Its type specimen is OU44899, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Foulden maar (I43/f8503), which is in an Aquitanian crater lake diatomite in the Foulden Hills Diatomite Formation of New Zealand.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2016Rhytidoponera waipiata Kaulfuss and Dlussky p. 1046 figs. 4.1-4.3
2022Rhytidoponera waipiata Camacho et al. p. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
subfamilyEctatomminaeEmery 1895
tribeEctatomminiEmery 1895
genusRhytidoponeraMayr 1862
specieswaipiata

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.

Rhytidoponera waipiata Kaulfuss and Dlussky 2016
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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: Aquitanian or 23.03000 to 20.44000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aquitanian23.03 - 20.44New Zealand Rhytidoponera waipiata (type locality: 50035)