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Camponotites gracilis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Camponotus gracilis was named by Zhang (1989). Its type specimen is s82606, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection s (Shandong Provincial Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.

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

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Camponotus gracilis Zhang p. 302 figs. Pl 76, fig 4; text-fig 300
2012Camponotus gracilis Bolton
2024Camponotites gracilis 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
speciesgracilis()

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 gracilis Zhang 1989
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available