Estevia
Genus of ants
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Estevia is a genus of fossil formicine ants containg two species known from Fushun amber. It was originally described in 2002 by Chinese paleoentomologist Youchong Hong (zh:洪友崇) as Wilsonia, an honorific of biologist E. O. Wilson,[2] however entomologist Brian Fisher found that the name was a junior secondary homonym of the bird genus Wilsonia described in 1838 and designated Estevia as a replacement name in 2026 in honor of Brazilian myrmecologist Flávia Esteves.[3]
| Estevia Temporal range: Fushun amber | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Clade: | Doryloformicia |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Estevia Fisher, 2025 |
| Type species | |
| Wilsonia megagastrosa (Hong, 2002) | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 2 species | |