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Britaneuretus anglicus
| †Britaneuretus anglicus Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Aneuretinae |
| Genus: | Britaneuretus |
| Species: | †B. anglicus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Britaneuretus anglicus (Cockerell, 1915) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight, UK (Priabonian, Late Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †anglicus. †Dolichoderus anglicus Cockerell, 1915: 484, pl. 65, fig. 8 (q. wing) UNITED KINGDOM (England (Isle of Wight), Eocene).
- Combination in *Britaneuretus: Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 412.
- Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1920: 83; Shattuck, 1994: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 172; Dlussky & Perfilieva, 2014: 412 (redescription).
Description
References
- Cockerell, T. D. A. 1915. British fossil insects. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 49: 469-499 (page 484, pl. 65, fig. 8 queen, wing described)
- Dlussky, G.M. & Perfilieva, K.S. 2014. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. In: Antropov, A. V., Belokobylskij, S. A., Compton, S. G., Dlussky, G. M., Khalaim, A. I., Kolyada, V. A., Kozlov, M. A., Perfilieva, K. S. & Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2014. The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104(3-4):335-446.
- Perfilieva, K.S. 2022. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from localities of the Russian Far East (Amgu, Velikaya Kema). Paleontological Journal, 56(4), 412–425 (doi:10.1134/s0031030122040086).
- Radchenko, A. 2023. A new extinct ant genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Baltic Amber. Annales Zoologici 73(1), 41-49 (doi:10.3161/00034541anz2023.73.1.004).
- Radchenko, A., Khomych, M. 2022. First records of aneuretine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Aneuretinae) in late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine). Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 65 (2): 69–80 (doi:10.3897/travaux.65.e85206).