Aphaenogaster mayri

†Aphaenogaster mayri Temporal range: Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl ↓ Florissant, Colorado, United States
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Stenammini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species:	†A. mayri
Binomial name
†Aphaenogaster mayri Carpenter, 1930

Distribution

This taxon was described from Florissant, Colorado, United States (Late Eocene).

Biology

This species is the commonest myrmicine in the Florissant shales with more than two hundred good specimens, mostly queens. The sculpturing of the female is usually discernible and in some specimens is preserved with remarkable clearness.

Nomenclature

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

• †mayri. †Aphaenogaster mayri Carpenter, 1930: 30, pl. 5, fig. 5; pl. 8, fig. 4; pl. 9, fig. 5; pl. 11, fig. 4 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Colorado, Florrisant, Eocene).
  • Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 109; Bolton, 1995b: 71.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 71, catalogue)
• Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70: 1-66. (page 30, pl.5, fig. 5, pl. 8, fig. 4, pl. 9, fig. 5, pl. 11, fig. 4 worker, queen, male described)
• Lubertazzi, D. 2019. The ants of Hispaniola. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 162(2), 59-210 (doi:10.3099/mcz-43.1).