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Protazteca hendersoni

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Ponera hendersoni was named by Cockerell (1906). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant, Fossil Stump Hill, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Euponera hendersoni by Cockerell (1927); it was recombined as Protazteca hendersoni by Carpenter (1930), Cockerell (1941) and Bolton (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1906Ponera hendersoni Cockerell p. 28
1927Euponera hendersoni Cockerell p. 164
1930Protazteca hendersoni Carpenter p. 42
1941Protazteca hendersoni Cockerell p. 355
2012Protazteca hendersoni Bolton

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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
subfamilyDolichoderinae
genusProtazteca
specieshendersoni()

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.

Protazteca hendersoni Cockerell 1906
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Diagnosis
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