Gnamptogenys europaea
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| †Gnamptogenys europaea 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: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Ectatommini |
| Genus: | Gnamptogenys |
| Species: | †G. europaea |
| Binomial name | |
| †Gnamptogenys europaea (Mayr, 1868)
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene), Danish-Scandinavian amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †europaea. †Ectatomma europaeum Mayr, 1868b: 76, pl. 4, figs. 72, 73 (q.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 33 (m.); Dlussky, 2009: 1063 (w.).
- Combination in Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 181.
- Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 696; Dalla Torre, 1893: 24; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 879; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 33; Brown, 1958g: 181; Burnham, 1979: 109; Keilbach, 1982: 273; Bolton, 1995b: 209; Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002: 17; Dlussky, 2009: 1063 (redescription); Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.
Description
References
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 118: 173-362 (page 181, Combination in Gnamptogenys)
- Dlussky, G.M. 2009. The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae and Pseudomyrmecinae in the Late Eocene ambers of Europe. Paleontological Journal 43: 1043- 1086.
- Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 76, pl. 4, figs. 72, 73 queen described)
- Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii, 50(2): 111–122 (DOI 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).
- Wheeler, W. M. 1915i [1914]. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schr. Phys.-Ökon. Ges. Königsb. 55: 1-142 (page 33, male described)
