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Carebara schossnicensis
| †Carebara schossnicensis Temporal range: Late Miocene Schossnitz (= Sosnica?), Silesia, Poland | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Carebara |
| Species: | †C. schossnicensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Carebara schossnicensis (Assmann, 1870) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Schossnitz (= Sosnica?), Silesia, Poland (Late Miocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †schossnicensis. †Pheidologeton schossnicensis Assmann, 1870: 40, pl. 1, fig. 3 (wing) GERMANY (Miocene).
- Combination in Carebara: Fischer, et al. 2014: 72.
- Status as species: Scudder, 1891: 722; Dalla Torre, 1893: 73; Handlirsch, 1907: 873; Bolton, 1995b: 333.
Taxonomic Notes
Radchenko et al. (2019): C. schossnicensis (originally placed to the genus Pheidologeton) was described based only on the forewing imprint and its venation was almost identical to that of Myrmica rugiceps (Assmann 1870); so, C. schossnicensis might, with equal probability, be attributed to the genus Carebara or to the morphogenus Paraphaenogaster, or even to some other myrmicine genera. The same may be true for Carebara thorali, which was described based on male.
Description
References
- Assmann, A. 1870. Beiträge zur Insekten-Fauna der Vorwelt. I. Beitrag. Die fossilen Insekten des tertiären (miocenen) Thonlagers von Schossnitz bei Kanth. Z. Entomol. (Breslau) (N.F.) 1: 33-58 (page 40, pl. 1, fig. 3 wing described)
- Fischer, G., Azorsa, F. & Fisher, B.L. 2014. The ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): synonymisation of Pheidologeton Mayr under Carebara, establishment and revision of the C. polita species group. ZooKeys 438: 57–112.
- 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).