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Camponotites heracleus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Formica heraclea was named by Heer (1849). It is an impression.

It was synonymized subjectively with Formica lignitum by Heer (1864); it was recombined as Camponotus heracleus by Mayr (1867) and Bolton (2012); it was recombined as Camponotites heracleus by Boudinot et al. (2024).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Formica heraclea Heer p. 116 figs. Pl 11, fig 3
1867Formica heraclea Heer p. 9 figs. Pl 1, fig 7
1867Camponotus heracleus Mayr p. 52
2012Camponotus heracleus Bolton
2024Camponotites heracleus Boudinot et al. p. 145

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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()
Antennoclypeata
subfamilyFormicinae
genusCamponotites
speciesheracleus()

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.

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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Sarmatian or 12.70000 to 11.60800 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Croatia Formica heraclea (117250)
Sarmatian12.7 - 11.608Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Formica heraclea (113689 117252)