Pityomyrmex tornquisti

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Pityomyrmex tornquisti
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: Aneuretinae
Tribe: Pityomyrmecini
Genus: Pityomyrmex
Species: P. tornquisti
Binomial name
Pityomyrmex tornquisti
Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Identification

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • tornquisti. †Pityomyrmex tornquisti Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 99, fig. 48 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).

Description

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