Dolichoderus longipilosus

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Dolichoderus longipilosus
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: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Dolichoderini
Genus: Dolichoderus
Species: D. longipilosus
Binomial name
Dolichoderus longipilosus
Dlussky, 2002

Identification

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Danish-Scandinavian amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).

Castes

Nomenclature

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

  • longipilosus. †Dolichoderus longipilosus Dlussky, 2002b: 57, figs. 2e, 2f (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).

Description

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