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 New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.

• †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.