Myrmica eocenica

†Myrmica eocenica Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Myrmicini
Genus:	Myrmica
Species:	†M. eocenica
Binomial name
†Myrmica eocenica Radchenko, Dlussky & Elmes, 2007

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Myrmica fossils

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Danish-Scandinavian amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).

Nomenclature

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

• †eocenica. †Myrmica eocenica Radchenko, Dlussky & Elmes, 2007: 1497, figs. 4, 5 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). See also: Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 653.

References

• Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii, 50(2): 111–122 (DOI 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).