Emplastus emeryi

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Emplastus emeryi
Temporal range: 36–32 Ma Late Eocene to Early Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Emplastus
Species: Emplastus emeryi
Donisthorpe, 1920

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Emplastus britannicus.

Nomenclature

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

  • emeryi. †Emplastus emeryi Donisthorpe, 1920: 86, pl. 5, fig. 5 (q.) GREAT BRITAIN (Oligocene). Junior synonym of †britannicus: Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 80.

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