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Gnamptogenys europaea

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Ectatomma europaeum was named by Mayr (1868). Its type specimen is No. 157, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Danziger Naturkundemuseum Menge collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

It was recombined as Gnamptogenys europaea by Spahr (1987), Dlussky (2002), Dlussky (2009) and Camacho et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1868Ectatomma europaeum Mayr p. 76 figs. 72, 73
1915Ectatomma europaeum Wheeler p. 33 fig. 5
1987Gnamptogenys europaea Spahr p. 49
2002Gnamptogenys europaea Dlussky p. 17
2009Gnamptogenys europaea Dlussky p. 1063 fig. 8a
2022Gnamptogenys europaea Camacho et al. p. 11

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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
genusGnamptogenysRoger 1863
specieseuropaea()

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.

†Gnamptogenys europaea Mayr 1868
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available