Monomorium pilipes

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Monomorium pilipes
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: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Monomorium
Species: M. pilipes
Binomial name
Monomorium pilipes
Mayr, 1868

Identification

Distribution

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

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Nomenclature

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

  • pilipes. †Monomorium pilipes Mayr, 1868b: 91, pl. 5, figs. 93, 94 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
    • Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 717; Dalla Torre, 1893: 69; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 872; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 45; Ettershank, 1966: 91; Burnham, 1979: 110; Keilbach, 1982: 274; Bolton, 1995b: 266; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1032.

Description

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