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Ectatomma gracile

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Ectatomma gracile was named by Emery (1891). Its type specimen is MMUB 16629, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Sicilian amber (Bologna coll), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Italy.

It was recombined as Gnamptogenys gracile by Spahr (1987).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1891Ectatomma gracile Emery p. 145 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2
1987Gnamptogenys gracile Spahr p. 50
2022Ectatomma gracile Camacho et al. p. 10

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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()
subfamilyEctatomminaeEmery 1895
tribeEctatomminiEmery 1895
genusEctatommaSmith 1858
speciesgracile

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.

Ectatomma gracile Emery 1891
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Diagnosis
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