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Pristomyrmex rasnitsyni
| †Pristomyrmex rasnitsyni Temporal range: Bartonian, 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 |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Pristomyrmex |
| Species: | †P. rasnitsyni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Pristomyrmex rasnitsyni Dlussky & Radchenko, 2011 | |
Pristomyrmex rasnitsyni is the only known fossil within the genus Pristomyrmex and is found well outside the geographic range of modern species. It is known from a single specimen, which is a mostly complete adult worker preserved within a transparent piece of Scandinavian (also known as Danish) amber.
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Danish-Scandinavian 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.
- †rasnitsyni. †Pristomyrmex rasnitsyni Dlussky & Radchenko, 2011: 254, fig. 2 (w.) DANISH AMBER.