Aphaenogaster dlusskyana
†Aphaenogaster dlusskyana Temporal range: Thanetian, Paleocene Sakhalin amber, Ukraine | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Attini |
Genus: | Aphaenogaster |
Species: | †A. dlusskyana |
Binomial name | |
†Aphaenogaster dlusskyana Radchenko & Perkovsky, 2016 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Sakhalin amber, Ukraine (Thanetian, Paleocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †dlusskyana. †Aphaenogaster dlusskyana Radchenko & Perkovsky, 2016: 938, figs. 2-5 (w.) SAKHALIN AMBER (Russia: Sakhalin I., Palaeocene).
Description
References
- Branstetter, M.G., Longino, J.T., Reyes- López, J.L., Brady, S.G., Schultz, T.R. 2022. Out of the temperate zone: A phylogenomic test of the biogeographical conservatism hypothesis in a contrarian clade of ants. Journal of Biogeography 00, 1-14 (doi:10.1111/jbi.14462).
- Radchenko, A.G., Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. The ant Aphaenogaster dlusskyana sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Sakhalin Amber—the earliest described species of an extant genus of Myrmicinae. Paleontological Journal, 50: 936–946 (doi:10.1134/S0031030116090136).