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Dolichoderus jonasi
| †Dolichoderus jonasi Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Rovno amber, Ukraine | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Dolichoderini |
| Genus: | Dolichoderus |
| Species: | †D. jonasi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Dolichoderus jonasi Dubovikoff & Zharkov, 2022 | |
Identification
Currently this species cannot be assigned to any of the species groups within the genus. From all species described from late Eocene European ambers, D. jonasi is characterized by the presence of pronotal teeth and the structure of the propodeum. Similar structure of the propodeum (presence of a chitinous ridge or ridge along the posterior edge of the main surface) was noted in species of the group D. balticus, but they have the main surface of the propodeum more convex, lacking a number of large setae along its posterior margin and no spines on pronotum. This species is similar in a number of ways to representatives the D. bidens and D. bispinosus + debilis + laminatus complexes (former genus/subgenus Monacis), living in South and Central America.
Distribution
This taxon was described from Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) and Baltic 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.
- †jonasi. †Dolichoderus jonasi Dubovikoff & Zharkov, 2022: 150, figs. 1-12 (w.m.) ROVNO & BALTIC AMBERS (Eocene).
Type Material
- Holotype: worker, JDC10574R, Rovno amber.
- Paratypes: worker, JDC10567R, Rovno amber; worker, JDC9598, Rovno or Baltic amber; male, JDC10581, Rovno or Baltic amber.
Description
References
- Dubovikoff, D. A., Zharkov, D. M. 2022. A new species of the genus Dolichoderus Lund, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from a Late Eocene European amber. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 181, 147–152 (doi:10.23885/181433262022181-147152).
- Radchenko, A.G. 2023. A New Ant Genus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Late Eocene Rovno Amber. Zoodiversity, 57(4), 323–336 (doi:10.15407/zoo2023.04.323).