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Cephalopone grandis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Cephalopone grandis was named by Dlussky and Wedmann (2012). Its type specimen is FIS MeI 5361, 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
2012Cephalopone grandis Dlussky and Wedmann p. 741 fig. 19

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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
subfamilyPonerinae
genusCephalopone
speciesgrandis

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.

†Cephalopone grandis Dlussky and Wedmann 2012
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available