Carebara nitida

†Carebara nitida Temporal range: Priabonian, Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Rovno amber, Ukraine
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Carebara
Species:	†C. nitida
Binomial name
†Carebara nitida (Dlussky, 2002)

Distribution

This taxon was described from Rovno amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Priabonian, Late Eocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †nitida. †Oligomyrmex nitidus Dlussky, in Dlussky & Perkovsky, 2002: 14, fig. 5 (w.) ROVNO AMBER (Ukraine, Eocene).
  • Combination in Carebara: Perkovsky, 2016: 115.
  • Status as species: Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2009: 1032; Perkovsky, 2016: 115.

References

• Radchenko, A.G., Dlussky, G.M., Gröhn, C. 2019. New extinct species of the ant genus Carebara (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the late Eocene European ambers. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 69: 609-616 (doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2019.69.3.010).