Monomorium mayrianum

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Monomorium mayrianum
Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Monomorium
Species: M. mayrianum
Binomial name
Monomorium mayrianum
Wheeler, W.M., 1915
Synonyms

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) and Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • gracillimum. †Lampromyrmex gracillimus Mayr, 1868b: 95, pl. 5, figs. 97, 98 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
    • Combination in Monomorium: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 45.
    • [Junior secondary homonym of Myrmica gracillima Smith, F. 1861a: 34.]
    • [Note: combination of †gracillimum in Lophomyrmex by Dlussky, 1997: 57, is in error for †Lampromyrmex.]
    • Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 713; Dalla Torre, 1893: 78; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 873.
    • Replacement name: †Monomorium mayrianum Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 45.
  • mayrianum. †Monomorium mayrianum Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 45.
    • Replacement name for †Lampromyrmex gracillimus Mayr, 1868b: 95. [Junior secondary homonym of Myrmica gracillima Smith, F. 1861a: 34.]
    • Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 90; Burnham, 1979: 110; Keilbach, 1982: 274; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1032; Perkovsky, 2016: 116.

Description

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