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Camponotites penninervis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Camponotus penninervis was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Coll Inst. Geol. Lyon A 63, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Aix-en-Provence (Inst. Geol. Lyon), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - large limestone in the Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation of France.

It was recombined as Camponotites penninervis by Boudinot et al. (2024).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Camponotus penninervis Theobald p. 317 figs. Pl XXVI fig 15
2012Camponotus penninervis Bolton
2024Camponotites penninervis 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
speciespenninervis()

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.

†Camponotites penninervis Theobald 1937
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Diagnosis
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