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Ravavy goldmani
| †Ravavy goldmani Temporal range: Early Miocene Ethiopian amber, Ethiopia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Bothriomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Ravavy |
| Species: | †R. goldmani |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ravavy goldmani Boudinot & Perrichot, 2022 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Ethiopian amber (Early Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †miafina. †Ravavy goldmani Boudinot & Perrichot, in Perrichot et al., 2022: 8, figs. 4-5 (m.) ETHIOPIA (Ethiopian Amber, early Miocene).
Type Material
- Holotype NIGP180512, male, housed in the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (NIGPAS, China), in Early Miocene (16–23 Mya) amber from the North Shewa Zone, Amhara region, Ethiopa.
- Paratype IGR.ET2015/001a, male, housed in the Geological Museum of the University of Rennes (IGR, France), same locality as holotyype.
Description
References
- Perrichot, V., Boudinot, B.E., Engel, M.S., Xu, C., Bojarski, B., Szwedo, J. 2022. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Miocene Ethiopian amber: filling gaps in the geological record of African terrestrial biota, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2022, zlac053 (doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac053).