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Asymphylomyrmex
| †Asymphylomyrmex Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region | |
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| Asymphylomyrmex balticus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae (incertae sedis) |
| Genus: | †Asymphylomyrmex Wheeler, W.M., 1915 |
| Type species | |
| Asymphylomyrmex balticus | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 fossil species (Species Checklist)
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †ASYMPHYLOMYRMEX [incertae sedis in Dolichoderinae]
- †Asymphylomyrmex Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 96. Type-species: †Asymphylomyrmex balticus, by monotypy.
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 26, Asymphylomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 21, Asymphylomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 83, Asymphylomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 77, Asymphylomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Liometopini)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 626, Asymphylomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Tapinomini)
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 17, Asymphylomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Tapinomini)
- Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 112:i-xix, 1-241. (page 8, Asymphylomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
- Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 96, Asymphylomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Tapinomini)