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Yantaromyrmex mayrianum
| †Yantaromyrmex mayrianum 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: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
| Genus: | Yantaromyrmex |
| Species: | †Y. mayrianum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Yantaromyrmex mayrianum Dlussky & Dubovikoff, 2013 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from 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.
- †mayrianum. †Yantaromyrmex mayrianum Dlussky & Dubovikoff, 2013: 311, figs. 15-19 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
Description
References
- Dlussky, G.M. & Dubovikoff, D.A. 2013. Yantaromyrmex gen. n. – a new ant genus (Hymenoptera Formicidae) from Late Eocene ambers of Europe. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 9, 305-314.
- Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).