Asymphylomyrmex balticus

†Asymphylomyrmex balticus Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Genus:	Asymphylomyrmex
Species:	†A. balticus
Binomial name
†Asymphylomyrmex balticus Wheeler, W.M., 1915

Distribution

This taxon was described from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene) and is also known from Rovno amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene) (Perkovsky, 2016).

Nomenclature

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

• †balticus. †Asymphylomyrmex balticus Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 97, fig. 47 (w.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene).
  • Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 113; Keilbach, 1982: 279; Shattuck, 1994: 8; Bolton, 1995b: 75; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1029; Dubovikoff, 2012: 169; Perkovsky, 2016: 114.

References

• Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).
• Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 97, fig. 47 worker described)