Aphaenogaster praerelicta
†Aphaenogaster praerelicta Temporal range: middle Miocene Mexican amber, Chiapas, Mexico | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Attini |
Genus: | Aphaenogaster |
Species: | †A. praerelicta |
Binomial name | |
†Aphaenogaster praerelicta De Andrade, 1995 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Mexican amber, Chiapas, Mexico (Middle Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †praerelicta. †Aphaenogaster praerelicta De Andrade, 1995: 6, figs. 2, 4 (w.) CHIAPAS AMBER (Mexico, Oligocene-Miocene).
Description
References
- De Andrade, M. L. 1995. The ant genus Aphaenogaster in Dominican and Mexican amber (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. IX: Pheidolini). Stuttg. Beitr. Naturkd. Ser. B (Geol. Paläontol.) 223: 1-11. (page 6, figs. 2, 4 worker d*Varela-Hernández, F., Riquelme, F., Guerrero, R.J., Vázquez-Franco, C.M. 2022. New ant species Schismiscapus exstinctum gen. et sp. nov. (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) from Miocene Mexican amber. Historical Biology 34:1-7 (doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2085568).
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