Biology:Propalosoma
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Short description: Extinct genus of insects
Propalosoma | |
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Propalosoma gutierrezae holotype | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Rhopalosomatidae |
Genus: | †Propalosoma |
Species: | †P. gutierrezae
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Binomial name | |
†Propalosoma gutierrezae Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 1999
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Propalosoma is an extinct genus of ants in the family Formicidae, containing a single species Propalosoma gutierrezae, known from the Eocene aged Klondike Mountain Formation in Washington State.[1][2] The genus was originally placed in the wasp family Rhopalosomatidae, but moved to the ant subfamily Myrmeciinae by Archibald et al in 2018.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Archibald, S. B.; Rasnitsyn, A. P.; Brothers, D. J.; Mathewes, R. W. (2018). "Modernisation of the Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of western North America". The Canadian Entomologist 150: 205–257. doi:10.4039/tce.2017.59.
- ↑ "Propalosoma (Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 1999)". Rhopalosomatidae of the world. Version 1. Published on the Internet. http://rhopalosomatidae.hymis.eu/species/&tree_h=8.2669&sub=yes&tree_status=plus&tree_seq=6. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
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Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propalosoma.
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