Aphaenogaster oligocenica

†Aphaenogaster oligocenica Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Stenammini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species:	†A. oligocenica
Binomial name
†Aphaenogaster oligocenica Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Aphaenogaster oligocenica is one of 14 fossil Aphaenogaster species, and one of three known from Baltic amber (the others being Aphaenogaster mersa and Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti).

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).

Nomenclature

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

• †oligocenica. †Aphaenogaster oligocenica Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 54, fig. 19 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
  • Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 109; Keilbach, 1982: 275; Bolton, 1995b: 71; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 71, catalogue)
• Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).
• Radchenko, A.G., Gröhn, C., Ribbecke, H.-W. 2024. Two new Aphaenogaster species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Baltic Amber. Zoodiversity 58(3), 195–202 (doi:10.15407/zoo2024.03.195).
• Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 54, fig. 19 worker described)