Kotshkorkia laticeps

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Kotshkorkia laticeps
Temporal range: Middle Miocene Chon-Tyz mine, Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Kotshkorkia
Species: K. laticeps
Binomial name
Kotshkorkia laticeps
Dlussky, 1981

Identification

Distribution

This taxon was described from the Chon-Tyz mine, Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan (Middle Miocene).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • laticeps. †Kotshkorkia laticeps Dlussky, 1981b: 71, fig. 52 (q.) RUSSIA (Miocene).

Description

References

  • Dlussky, G. M. 1981a. Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the USSR. Pp. 64-83 in: Vishnyakova, V. N., Dlussky, G. M., Pritykina, L. N. New fossil insects from the territories of the USSR. Tr. Paleontol. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 183:1-87. (page 71, fig. 52 queen described)