Technomyrmex svojtkai

†Technomyrmex svojtkai Temporal range: Early Miocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Ethiopian amber, Ethiopia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Genus:	Technomyrmex
Species:	†T. svojtkai
Binomial name
†Technomyrmex svojtkai Perrichot & Engel, 2022

Distribution

This taxon was described from Ethiopian amber (Early Miocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †deletus. †Technomyrmex svojtkai Perrichot & Engel, in Perrichot et al., 2022: 6, figs. 1-3, s1, s2 (w.) ETHIOPIA (Ethiopian Amber, early Miocene).

Type Material

• Holotype NHMW-N6976, a complete worker; in Early Miocene (16–23 Mya) amber from the North Shewa Zone, Amhara region, Ethiopia; housed in the Department of Mineralogy and Petrography, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW, Austria).
• Paratypes MAIG 6020, two workers missing portions of legs; in Early Miocene (16–23 Mya) amber from the South Wollo Zone, Amhara region, Ethiopia; housed in the Museum of Amber Inclusions of the University of Gdansk (MAIG, Poland).

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).