Monomorium pilipes
†Monomorium pilipes Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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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).
Castes
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
References
- Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beiträge zur Naturkunde Preussens. Königlichen Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 1: 1-102. [(31.xii).1868.] (page 91, pl. 5, figs. 93, 94 worker described)
- Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).