Nylanderia pygmaea
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| †Nylanderia pygmaea Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Lasiini |
| Genus: | Nylanderia |
| Species: | †N. pygmaea |
| Binomial name | |
| †Nylanderia pygmaea (Mayr, 1868) | |
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene), Danish-Scandinavian amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009; Perkovsky, 2016).
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.
- †pygmaea. †Prenolepis pygmaea Mayr, 1868c: 36, pl. 1, fig. 18 (q.m.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). Combination in Paratrechina: Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1030; in Nylanderia: LaPolla & Dlussky, 2010: 260.
Description
References
- Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2009. Ants (Insecta: Vespida: Formicidae) in the Upper Eocene amber of Europe. Paleontological Journal, 43 (9), 1024–1042 (DOI 10.1134/S0031030109090056).
- LaPolla, J.S. & Dlussky, G.M. 2010. Review of fossil Prenolepis genus-group species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 112: 258-273.
- Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beiträge zur Naturkunde Preussens. Königlichen Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 1: 1-102. [(31.xii).1868.] PDF
- Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii, 50(2): 111–122 (DOI 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).
