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Ectatomma

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Ectatomma was named by Smith (1858). It is extant. It is the type genus of Ectatommini, Ectatomminae.

It was assigned to Ectatomminae by Dlussky and Wedmann (2012); and to Ectatommini by Wheeler (1915), Bolton (2003), Bolton (2012) and Camacho et al. (2022).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1858Ectatomma Smith
1915Ectatomma Wheeler
2003Ectatomma Bolton p. 46
2012Ectatomma Bolton
2012Ectatomma Dlussky and Wedmann p. 728
2022Ectatomma Camacho et al. p. 10

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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
genusEctatommaSmith 1858

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.

G. Ectatomma Smith 1858
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Ectatomma gracile Emery 1891
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Late/Upper Miocene or 11.60800 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Italy E. gracile (123432)