Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: †Formiciinae
Genus: Formicium
Species (3): F. berryi – F. brodiei – F. mirabile

Name

Type species

Formicium brodiei Westwood, 1854

Synonyms

  • Eoponera Carpenter, 1929: 301

References

  • Archibald, S.B.; Johnson, K.R.; Mathewes, R.W.; Greenwood, D.R. (in press, 2011): Intercontinental dispersal of giant thermophilic ants across the Arctic during early Eocene hyperthermals. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B), DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0729
  • Carpenter, F.M. 1929: A fossil ant from the Lower Eocene (Wilcox) of Tennessee. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 19(14): 300–301. PDF
  • Lutz, H. 1986: Eine neue Unterfamilie der Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) aus dem mittel-eozanen Olschiefer der "Grube Messel" bei Darmstadt (Deutschland, S-Hessen). Senckenbergiana lethaea, 67(1-4): 177–218. PDF
  • Westwood, J.O. 1854: Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London, 10: 378–396, plates XIV-XVIII. BHL
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