Carebara sophiae

†Carebara sophiae Temporal range: Late/Upper Miocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Sicilian amber, Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Carebara
Species:	†C. sophiae
Binomial name
†Carebara sophiae (Emery, 1891)

Distribution

This taxon was described from Sicilian amber, Italy (Late/Upper Miocene).

Nomenclature

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

• †sophiae. †Aeromyrma sophiae Emery, 1891a: 151, pl. 2, figs. 17, 18 (m.) SICILIAN AMBER (Italy: Sicily, Oligocene).
  • Combination in Aneleus: Emery, 1924d: 218 (footnote);
  • combination in Oligomyrmex: Bolton, 1995b: 300;
  • combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
  • Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 78; Handlirsch, 1907: 873; Keilbach, 1982: 276; Bolton, 1995b: 300.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 300, Combination in Oligomyrmex)
• Emery, C. 1891b. Le formiche dell'ambra Siciliana nel Museo Mineralogico dell'Università di Bologna. Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna (5)1:141-165 (page 151, pl. 2, figs. 17, 18 male described)
• Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26(1): 191-238 (page 235, Combination in Carebara)
• 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).