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Liometopum rhenanum
| †Liometopum rhenanum Temporal range: Late Oligocene Rott, Westphalia, Germany | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Tapinomini |
| Genus: | Liometopum |
| Species: | †L. rhenanum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Liometopum rhenanum (Meunier, 1917) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Rott, Westphalia, Germany (Late Oligocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †rhenanum. †Ponera rhenana Meunier, 1917: 8, fig. 6 (wing) GERMANY (Tertiary).
- Combination in †Poneropsis: Taylor, 1964: 139.
- Combination in Liometopum: Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 245 [by implication because Liometopum senior synonym of †Poneropsis: Dlussky & Putyatina, 2014: 245].
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 363.
Description
References
- Dlussky, G.M. & Putyatina, T.S. 2014. Early Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Radoboj, Croatia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 272, 237-285.
- Meunier, F. 1917. Sur quelques insectes de l'Aquitainien de Rott, Sept Montagnes (Prusse rhénane). Verh. K. Akad. Wet. Amst. Tweede Sect. 20: 3-17. (page 8, fig. 6 wing described)
- Taylor, R. W. 1964. Taxonomy and parataxonomy of some fossil ants (Hymenoptera-Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 71: 134-141 (page 139, Combination in Poneropsis)