Distribution and Differentiation of Fossil Oecophylla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species by Wing Imprintsстатья
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Аннотация:Ten Middle Miocene imprints of Oecophylla Smith, 1860 (Stavropol Region, Russia) are describedand redescribed from the collection of the Arthropoda Laboratory of the Borissiak Paleontological Instituteof the Russian Academy of Sciences. Oecophylla has distinctive features of the wing venation, allowing theidentification of fossils. Based on our study of extant ants, a procedure for identifying externally similar forewingimprints of Formicinae using the example of Oecophylla (Bembridge, United Kingdom) is proposed. Itseems that the oldest Oecophylla is recognized now among early and middle Eocene ants from North America,a continent no longer inhabited by weaver ants, despite the apparently suitable climatic conditions. Wesuggest that historical distribution of weaver ants was determined by their ecology and behavior, and competitionwithin ant assemblages.