Eocenomyrma orthospina
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| †Eocenomyrma orthospina Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Eocenomyrma |
| Species: | †E. orthospina |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eocenomyrma orthospina Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006
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Contents
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).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.
- †orthospina. †Eocenomyrma orthospina Dlussky & Radchenko, 2006b: 563, fig. 1 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
Taxonomic Notes
Specimen No. 6800 reported by Radchenko & Dlussky (2016: 407) as Eocenomyrma orthospina is a misidentification and the specimen actually belongs to Eocenomyrma groehni (Radchenko, 2020).
Description
References
- Dlussky, G. M. and A. Radchenko. 2006b. A new ant genus from the late Eocene European amber. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(3): 561-567.
- Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii, 50(2): 111–122 (DOI 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).
- Radchenko, A. 2020. New species of extinct ant genus Eocenomyrma Dlussky et Radchenko (Hyymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from the Baltic amber. Annales Zoologici (Warszawa) 70(1): 109-111 doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.005).
- Radchenko, A.G., Dlussky, G.M. 2016. Further data on the extinct ant genus Eocenomyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Vestnik zoologii, 50: 395–406 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0046).
