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Oecophylla kraussei

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Camponotites kraussei was named by Dlussky and Rasnitsyn (1999). Its type specimen is UWBM 78047, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Republic, UWBM locality B4876, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Klondike Mountain Formation of Washington.

It was recombined as Oecophylla kraussei by Perfilieva et al. (2017) and Archibald et al. (2024).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1999Camponotites kraussei Dlussky and Rasnitsyn p. 547 fig. 2
2002Camponotites krausei Dlussky and Rasnitsyn p. 418 fig. 10
2012Camponotites kraussei Bolton
2017Oecophylla kraussei Perfilieva et al. p. 399
2024Oecophylla kraussei Archibald et al. p. 10 fig. 6

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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
specieskraussei()

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 kraussei Dlussky and Rasnitsyn 1999
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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: Ypresian or 56.00000 to 47.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8USA (Washington) Camponotites kraussei (type locality: 124086)