Eoformica expectans ( Théobald, 1937 ), Theobald, 1937

Dlussky, Gennady M., Wappler, Torsten & Wedmann, Sonja, 2009, Fossil ants of the genus Gesomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Eocene of Europe and remarks on the evolution of arboreal ant communities, Zootaxa 2031 (1), pp. 1-20 : 14

Eoformica expectans ( Théobald, 1937) comb. nov.

Gesomyrmex expectans Théobald, 1937 , p. 210–211, pl. IV, fig. 13; pi. XIV, fig. 21 (3); Burnham, 1978, p.114; Bolton, 1995, p. 207.

Comments. Described from one imprint from Kleinkembs, Haut-Rhin, France (early Oligocene). The specimen has a small rounded head with comparative small eyes and a comparative long scape, so it cannot be Gesomyrmex . Forewings are not preserved. The specimen is assigned to the formal genus (morphogenus) Eoformica Cockerell, 1921 , which includes poorly preserved wingless imprints of ants in which the waist is one-segmented and narrowly attached to the gaster and the gaster lacks a constriction between the first and second segments. Eoformica Cockerell, 1921 includes three species: E. pinguis (Scudder, 1877) , E. magna Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003 and E. globularis Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003 . Eoformica expectans (Théobald) differs from another all other species included in this genus ( Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003) by its body proportions.