Electromyrmex wheeleri
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†Electromyrmex wheeleri 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 |
Genus: | Electromyrmex |
Species: | †E. wheeleri |
Binomial name | |
†Electromyrmex wheeleri Radchenko & Dlussky, 2018 |
Contents
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Bitterfeld 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.
- †wheeleri. †Electromyrmex wheeleri Radchenko & Dlussky, 2018: 363, figs. 1-9 (m.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
Type Material
- Holotype, male, Baltic Amber (Eocene), GPIH number 4937, coll. Gröhn No. 6737, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut des Universität Hamburg.
- Paratype, 1 male, Bitterfeld Amber (Eocene), MNKB No. 10/216, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany (MNKB) (the former Zoological Museum of the Humboldt University).