Myrmica paradoxa

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

Identification

Keys including this Species

• Key to Myrmica fossils

Distribution

This taxon was described from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †paradoxa. †Myrmica paradoxa Radchenko, Dlussky & Elmes, 2007: 1496, figs. 2, 3 (w.) GERMANY (Saxonian amber, Eocene). See also: Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 654.

References

• Radchenko, A.G., Dlussky, G. & Elmes, G.W. 2007. The ants of the genus Myrmica from Baltic and Saxonian amber. Journal of Paleontology 81: 1494-1501.

• Radchenko, A.G. & Elmes, G.W. 2010. Myrmica ants of the Old World. Fauna Mundi 3: 1-789.