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Cephites oeningensis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Cephites oeningensis was named by Heer (1849). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (Carlsruhe collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Cephites.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Cephites oeningensis Heer p. 173 figs. Pl 13, fig 17
2010Cephites oeningensis Taeger et al. p. 54
2015Cephites oeningensis Archibald and Rasnitsyn p. 210

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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()
subfamilyMyrmicinae
genusCephites
speciesoeningensis

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.

Cephites oeningensis Heer 1849
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available