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Lonchomyrmex nigritus
| †Lonchomyrmex nigritus Temporal range: Late Miocene Schossnitz (= Sosnica?), Silesia, Poland | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Lonchomyrmex |
| Species: | †L. nigritus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Lonchomyrmex nigritus Assmann, 1870 | |
It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Schossnitz (Sosnica), which is in a Miocene lacustrine claystone in Poland.
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Schossnitz (= Sosnica?), Silesia, Poland (Late Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †nigritus. †Lonchomyrmex nigritus Assmann, 1870: 39, pl. 1, fig. 2 (wing) GERMANY (Miocene).
Description
References
- Assmann, A. 1870. Beiträge zur Insekten-Fauna der Vorwelt. I. Beitrag. Die fossilen Insekten des tertiären (miocenen) Thonlagers von Schossnitz bei Kanth. Z. Entomol. (Breslau) (N.F.) 1: 33-58. (page 39, pl. 1, fig. 2 (wing described))
- Mayr, G.L. 1867: Vorläufige Studien über di Radoboj-Formiciden, in der Sammlung der k.k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. Jahrbuch der k.k. Geologischen Reichsanstalt, 17: 47-62.