Abstract

Ten Middle Miocene imprints of Oecophylla Smith, 1860 (Stavropol Region, Russia) are described and redescribed from the collection of the Arthropoda Laboratory of the Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Oecophylla has distinctive features of the wing venation, allowing the identification of fossils. Based on our study of extant ants, a procedure for identifying externally similar forewing imprints of Formicinae using the example of Oecophylla (Bembridge, United Kingdom) is proposed. It seems 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. We suggest that historical distribution of weaver ants was determined by their ecology and behavior, and competition within ant assemblages.

中文翻译：

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翼印记的化石叶藻（膜翅目：昆虫科）物种的分布和分化。

摘要

从俄罗斯科学院Borissiak古生物学研究所节肢动物实验室的藏品中，描述并重新描述了1860年Oecophylla Smith（俄罗斯斯塔夫罗波尔地区）的十个中新世中期印记。Oecophylla具有机翼静脉的独特特征，可以识别化石。根据我们现存蚂蚁的研究，使用的例子识别蚁的外部相似前翅印记的过程Oecophylla（布里奇，英国）的建议。看来最古老的Oecophylla尽管看起来气候条件合适，但北美早，中期的始新世蚂蚁已认识到该物种，该大陆不再是织布蚁居住的大陆。我们建议，织叶蚁的历史分布取决于它们的生态和行为，以及在蚁群内部的竞争。