Prionomyrmex longiceps

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Prionomyrmex longiceps
Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmeciinae
Tribe: Prionomyrmecini
Genus: Prionomyrmex
Species: P. longiceps
Binomial name
Prionomyrmex longiceps
Mayr, 1868

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) (Perkovsky, 2016) and Rovno amber (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Radchenko & Perkovsky, 2020).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • longiceps. †Prionomyrmex longiceps Mayr, 1868c: 78, pl. 4, figs. 74, 75 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 27 (m.).

Description

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