Crematogaster praecursor
†Crematogaster praecursor Temporal range: Late/Upper Miocene Sicilian amber, Italy | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Crematogaster |
Species: | †C. praecursor |
Binomial name | |
†Crematogaster praecursor Emery, 1891 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Sicilian amber, Italy (Late/Upper Miocene).
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †praecursor. †Crematogaster praecursor Emery, 1891a: 152, pl. 2, figs. 19-21 (m.) SICILIAN AMBER (Italy: Sicily, Oligocene).
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 84; Handlirsch, 1907: 873; Keilbach, 1982: 275; Bolton, 1995b: 160.
Description
References
- Emery, C. 1891b. Le formiche dell'ambra Siciliana nel Museo Mineralogico dell'Università di Bologna. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)1:141-165 (page 152, pl. 2, figs. 19-21 male described)
- Radchenko, A.G., Dlussky, G.M. 2019. First record of the ant genus Crematogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Late Eocene European ambers. Annales Zoologici 69: 417-421 (DOI 10.3161/00034541ANZ2019.69.2.008).