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Emplastus macrops

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Emplastus macrops was named by Dlussky et al. (2015). Its type specimen is PIN 3429/1187, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bolshaya Svetlovodnaya, Biamo, layer 5 (PIN collection 3429), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine diatomite in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Emplastus macrops Dlussky et al. p. 135 fig. 6

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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
genusEmplastus
speciesmacrops

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.

Emplastus macrops Dlussky et al. 2015
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available