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Agroecomyrmex duisburgi
| †Agroecomyrmex duisburgi Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Agroecomyrmecinae |
| Genus: | Agroecomyrmex |
| Species: | †A. duisburgi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Agroecomyrmex duisburgi (Mayr, 1868)
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene) and is also known from Bitterfeld amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †duisburgi. †Myrmica duisburgi Mayr, 1868b: 87, pl. 5, figs. 87, 88 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 58 (q.).
- Combination in *Agroecomyrmex: Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 57.
- Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 718; Dalla Torre, 1893: 109; André, 1895b: 82 (in list); Handlirsch, 1907: 874; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 57; Burnham, 1979: 110; Keilbach, 1982: 275; Bolton, 1995b: 61; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115; Radchenko & Khomych, 2022a: 261.
Description
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 61, catalogue)
- Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 87, pl. 5, figs. 87, 88 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).
- Radchenko, A., Khomych, M. 2022. Morphology and putative ecology of Eocene ant Agroecomyrmex duisburgi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Agroecomyrmecinae). Annales Zoologici, 72(2): 261-268 (doi:10.3161/00034541anz2022.72.2.009).
- Richter, A., Boudinot, B.E., Hita Garcia, F., Billen, J., Economo, E.P., Beutel, R.G. 2023. Wonderfully weird: the head anatomy of the armadillo ant, Tatuidris tatusia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Agroecomyrmecinae), with evolutionary implications. Myrmecological News 33: 35-75 (doi:10.25849/MYRMECOL.NEWS_033:035).
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 57, Combination in Agroecomyrmex, page 58, queen described)