Agroecomyrmex duisburgi

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Agroecomyrmex duisburgi
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: Agroecomyrmecinae
Genus: Agroecomyrmex
Species: A. duisburgi
Binomial name
Agroecomyrmex duisburgi
(Mayr, 1868)

Agroecomyrmex duisburgi BMNHP18831 01.jpg

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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) (Perkovsky, 2016).

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Nomenclature

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

  • duisburgi. †Myrmica duisburgi Mayr, 1868b: 87, pl. 5, figs. 87, 88 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
    • Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 58 (q.).
    • Combination in *Agroecomyrmex: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 57.
    • Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 718; Dalla Torre, 1893: 109; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 874; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 57; Burnham, 1979: 110; Keilbach, 1982: 275; Bolton, 1995b: 61; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.

Description

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