Aphaenogaster oligocenica
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| †Aphaenogaster oligocenica Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Aphaenogaster |
| Species: | †A. oligocenica |
| Binomial name | |
| †Aphaenogaster oligocenica Wheeler, W.M., 1915 | |
Aphaenogaster oligocenica is one of 12 fossil Aphaenogaster species, and one of three known from Baltic amber (the others being Aphaenogaster mersa and Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti).
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).
Castes
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.
Description
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).
- Wheeler, W. M. 1915i [1914]. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schr. Phys.-Ökon. Ges. Königsb. 55: 1-142 (page 54, fig. 19 worker described)
