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Oecophylla (weaver ant)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy

Oecophylla was named by Smith (1860). It is extant. It is the type genus of Oecophyllini.

It was assigned to Solenopsidini by Zhang (1989); to Formicidae by Carpenter (1992); to Formicinae by Dlussky et al. (2008), Dlussky and Perfilieva (2014); and to Oecophyllini by Wheeler (1915), Bolton (2003), Bolton (2012), Ward et al. (2016).

Species

O. atavina (syn. O. perdita), O. bartoniana, O. brischkei, O. crassinoda (syn. O. brevinodis), O. eckfeldiana, O. grandimandibula, O. kraussei, O. leakeyi, O. longiceps, O. macroptera, O. megarche, O. obesa (syn. Formica pinguis, Attopsis anthracina, Attopsis nigra), O. praeclara, O. sicula, O. smaragdina, O. superba, O. taurica

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1860	Oecophylla Smith p. 101
1915	Oecophylla Wheeler
1989	Oecophylla Zhang p. 296
1992	Oecophylla Carpenter
2003	Oecophylla Bolton p. 25
2008	Oecophylla Dlussky et al. p. 617
2012	Oecophylla Bolton
2014	Oecophylla Dlussky and Perfilieva p. 423
2016	Oecophylla Ward et al. p. 348

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Hymenopterida
order	Hymenoptera
—	Unicalcarida
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
—	Aculeata	()
superfamily	Formicoidea
family	Formicidae	()
—	Antennoclypeata
—	Euformicia
—	Doryloformicia
—	Formicia
—	Formicomyrmida
—	Formicomorpha
subfamily	Formicinae
tribe	Oecophyllini	Emery 1895
genus	Oecophylla	Smith 1860

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.

G. Oecophylla Smith 1860 [weaver ant]

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†Oecophylla atavina Cockerell 1915

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Invalid names: Oecophylla perdita Cockerell 1915 [synonym]

†Oecophylla bartoniana Cockerell 1920

†Oecophylla brischkei Mayr 1868

†Oecophylla crassinoda Wheeler 1922

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Invalid names: Oecophylla brevinodis Wheeler 1915 [replaced]

†Oecophylla eckfeldiana Dlussky et al. 2008

†Oecophylla grandimandibula Riou 1999

†Oecophylla kraussei Dlussky and Rasnitsyn 1999

†Oecophylla leakeyi Wilson and Taylor 1964

†Oecophylla longiceps Dlussky et al. 2008

†Oecophylla macroptera Dlussky 1981

†Oecophylla megarche Cockerell 1915

†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]

†Oecophylla praeclara Förster 1891

†Oecophylla sicula Emery 1891

Oecophylla smaragdina Fabricius 1775

Oecophylla smaragdina selebensis Emery 1893

†Oecophylla superba Theobald 1937

†Oecophylla taurica Perfilieva et al. 2017

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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Holocene or 56.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.07 Ma

Collections (34 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	USA (Washington)	Camponotites kraussei (124086)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	United Kingdom (England)	Oecophylla bartoniana (127644)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	USA (Mississippi)	Oecophylla sp. (157347)
MP 11	48.07 - 41.03	Germany (Hessen)	Oecophylla longiceps (120798)
MP 13	48.07 - 41.03	Germany (Eifel)	Oecophylla eckfeldiana (135640 135644 138911 138912)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.71 - 33.9	Czechia	Oecophylla obesa (138883)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	United Kingdom (England)	Oecophylla atavina, Oecophylla perdita, Oecophylla megarche (123959) Oecophylla megarche (21976 123960)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Oecophylla brischkei (122591 123757 124073 138654) Oecophylla brischkei, Oecophylla brevinodis (123927)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	United Kingdom (Isle of Wight)	Oecophylla megarche (157669)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Lithuania	Oecophylla crassinoda (232023)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Poland	Oecophylla brischkei (109625 120811)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	France	Attopsis nigra (121476) Oecophylla praeclara (121473)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	Germany	Oecophylla superba (122407)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Kenya	Oecophylla leakeyi (138938)
Langhian	15.98 - 13.82	Ukraine	Oecophylla taurica (188087)
Middle Miocene	15.98 - 11.63	Russian Federation	Camponotites macropterus (125988) Oecophylla macroptera (125996)
Sarmatian	12.8 - 11.63	Croatia	Formica obesa, Attopsis anthracina, Attopsis nigra (117246) Oecophylla obesa (113698 117247)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.63 - 5.333	Italy	Oecophylla sicula (123432)
Turolian	8.725 - 5.09	France (Ardèche)	Oecophylla grandimandibula (156164)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Indonesia	Oecophylla smaragdina (182105)