Dolichoderus polessus

†Dolichoderus polessus 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:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	Dolichoderini
Genus:	Dolichoderus
Species:	†D. polessus
Binomial name
†Dolichoderus polessus Dlussky, 2002

Distribution

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

Nomenclature

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

• †polessus. †Dolichoderus polessus Dlussky, 2002b: 59, fig. 2d (w.) ROVNO AMBER (Eocene).

References

• Dlussky, G. M. 2002a. Ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the Baltic and Rovno ambers. Paleontol. Zh. 2002(1): 54-68 (page 59, fig. 2d worker described)
• Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Tropical and Holoarctic ants in late Eocene ambers. Vestnik zoologii 50(2): 111–122 (doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0014).