Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti
†Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Attini |
Genus: | Aphaenogaster |
Species: | †A. sommerfeldti |
Binomial name | |
†Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti Mayr, 1868 |
Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti is one of 12 fossil Aphaenogaster species, and one of three known from Baltic amber (the others being Aphaenogaster mersa and Aphaenogaster oligocenica).
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †sommerfeldti. †Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti Mayr, 1868b: 81, pl. 4, figs. 76, 77 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
- Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 688; Dalla Torre, 1893: 104; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 874; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 53; Burnham, 1979: 109; Keilbach, 1982: 275; Bolton, 1995b: 73; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 73, catalogue)
- Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 81, pl.4, figs. 76, 77 worker described)
- Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).