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Lonchomyrmex freyeri

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Formica freyeri was named by Heer (1867). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Radoboj (Grätz Collection), which is in a Sarmatian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in Croatia. It is the type species of Lonchomyrmex.

It was recombined as Lonchomyrmex freyeri by Mayr (1867), Scudder (1885) and Dlussky and Putyatina (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1867Formica freyeri Heer p. 10 figs. Pl 1, fig 9
1867Lonchomyrmex freyeri Mayr p. 61 fig. 12
1885Lonchomyrmex freyeri Scudder p. 818 fig. 1104
2014Lonchomyrmex freyeri Dlussky and Putyatina p. 274 fig. 14F

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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()
subfamilyMyrmicinae
tribeCrematogastriniForel 1893
genusLonchomyrmex
speciesfreyeri()

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.

†Lonchomyrmex freyeri Heer 1867
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Diagnosis
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