Asymphylomyrmex balticus

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Asymphylomyrmex balticus
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: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Asymphylomyrmex
Species: A. balticus
Binomial name
Asymphylomyrmex balticus
Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Identification

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).

Biology

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • balticus. †Asymphylomyrmex balticus Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 97, fig. 47 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
    • Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 113; Keilbach, 1982: 279; Shattuck, 1994: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 75; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1029; Perkovsky, 2016: 114.

Description

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