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Paraphaenogaster dumetorum

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Rectorhagas dumetorum was named by Lin (1982). Its type specimen is Shandong Museum 750135, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection 5, which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.

It was recombined as Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma) dumetora by Zhang et al. (1994); it was recombined as Aphaenogaster dumetora by Bolton (2012); it was recombined as Paraphaenogaster dumetorum by Radchenko and Perkovsky (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Rectorhagas dumetorum Lin p. 155 figs. Pl 64, fig 1
1994Aphaenogaster (Deromyrma) dumetora Zhang et al. p. 162 figs. Pl 29, fig 2; text-fig 141, 142
2012Aphaenogaster dumetora Bolton
2016Paraphaenogaster dumetorum Radchenko and Perkovsky p. 944

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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
tribeStenammini
genusParaphaenogaster
speciesdumetorum()

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.

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Diagnosis
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