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Tetraponera oligocenica

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Sima oligocenica was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Marseilles Museum C99, an exoskeleton (incomplete), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Célas, Gard (Museum Marseille collection), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine marl in France.

It was recombined as Tetraponera oligocenica by Dlussky (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Sima oligocenica Theobald p. 127 figs. Pl X fig 16
2009Tetraponera oligocenica Dlussky p. 1077

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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()
subfamilyPseudomyrmecinaeSmith 1952
genusTetraponeraSmith 1852
speciesoligocenica()

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.

†Tetraponera oligocenica Theobald 1937
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Diagnosis
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