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Casaleia eocenica

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Casaleia eocenica was named by Dlussky and Wedmann (2012). Its type specimen is FIS MeI 5565, an exoskeleton (winged gyne), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Senckenberg SMF collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2012Casaleia eocenica Dlussky and Wedmann p. 727 fig. 3

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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()
subfamilyAmblyoponinaeForel 1893
genusCasaleia
specieseocenica

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.

Casaleia eocenica Dlussky and Wedmann 2012
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available