Aphaenogaster antiqua
†Aphaenogaster antiqua Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Rovno amber, Ukraine | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Stenammini |
Genus: | Aphaenogaster |
Species: | †A. antiqua |
Binomial name | |
†Aphaenogaster antiqua Dlussky, 2002 |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Rovno amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †antiqua. †Aphaenogaster antiqua Dlussky, in Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002: 13, fig. 4 (w.) ROVNO AMBER (Ukraine, Eocene).
- Status as species: Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1031; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.
Description
References
- Dlussky , G. M.; Perkovsky, E.E. 2002. Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Rovno amber. Vestnik Zoologii 36(5): 3-20, 99.
- Radchenko, A.G., Gröhn, C., Ribbecke, H.-W. 2024. Two new Aphaenogaster species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Baltic Amber. Zoodiversity 58(3), 195–202 (doi:10.15407/zoo2024.03.195).