Fallomyrma transversa
†Fallomyrma transversa Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Rovno amber, UkraineBartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Bitterfeld amber, Sachsen-Anhalt, GermanyBartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Danish-Scandinavian amber, Denmark | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Genus: | Fallomyrma |
Species: | †F. transversa |
Binomial name | |
†Fallomyrma transversa Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Danish-Scandinavian 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.
- †transversa. †Fallomyrma transversa Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006a: 156, figs. 1-6 UKRAINE (Rovno Amber).
Description
References
- Dlussky, G. M. and A. Radchenko. 2006. Fallomyrma gen. nov., a new myrmicine ant genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the late Eocene European amber. Annales Zoologici 56(1): 153-157.
- Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).