Dolichoderus robustus

†Dolichoderus robustus Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Rovno amber, Ukraine
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	Dolichoderini
Genus:	Dolichoderus
Species:	†D. robustus
Binomial name
†Dolichoderus robustus Dlussky, 2002

Distribution

This taxon was described from Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) and is also known from Danish-Scandinavian amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2018; Perkovsky, 2016).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• †robustus. †Dolichoderus robustus Dlussky, 2002b: 65, figs. 5d-5g (w.) ROVNO AMBER (Eocene).

References

• Dlussky, G. M. 2002a. Ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Baltic and Rovno ambers. Paleontol. Zh. 2002(1): 54-68 (page 65, figs. 5d-5g 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).
• Perkovsky, E.E. 2018. Only half of Rovno amber hymenopteran fauna is common with Baltic amber. Vestnik Zoologii 52:353-360 (DOI 10.2478/vzoo-2018-0037).
• Radchenko, A.G., Perkovsky, E.E., Vasilenko, D.V. 2021. Formica species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) in late Eocene Rovno amber. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 82, 237–251 (doi:10.3897/jhr.82.64599).